* Frank K?ster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: automake1.4 > Version: 1:1.4-p6-9 > Severity: important > > This bug also might also apply to the other old automake packages. > > automake ships the file texinfo.tex in /usr/share/automake-$version/. I > don't know what it does with it, but I guess the purpose is to copy it > into the source tree. However, the version of texinfo.tex shipped with > automake1.4 (didn't check the others, except automake1.9 which is okay > even in sarge) is buggy and does not work with texinfo/texi2dvi/etc. in > unstable. > > To me it seems that the clean solution would be not to include this file > at all. Today, the texi2dvi, texi2pdf, makeinfo scripts are provided by > the (upstream) texinfo package, so on every system where this file is > useful, it is already present (installed by texinfo). > > If this isn't possible, it should be updated to use the file currently > in texinfo (in unstable). Note that this is not a feature change, but > an actual bug fix, so I from the point of view of that bug the new > version should work on old systems without problems. I'm not sure, > however, whether there were any changes to the file that would also > require updates to the scripts, so that the new file might fail on old > systems. If in doubt, please ask texinfo's upstream (the Debian texinfo > maintainer doesn't know, either).
Well there's a few potential problems with this. The automake1.4 package is only provided for really old packages. I doubt updating the file to the current version would be compatible with such an old version of automake. I could remove the file, but I'm not sure there's a good point. If someone runs into this brokenness, the remedy is to upgrade. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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