On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:59:07AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > Package: menu > Version: 2.1.41 > Severity: normal > Usertags: texinfo-transition > > Dear maintainer, > > we are currently replacing the dpkg install-info with GNU install-info > and at the same time reworking the installation method for info files > with triggers (see http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo > for details).
Hello Norbert, Does Lenny includes this trigger ? Did you consider what will when a partial lenny to squeeze update is made ? > As a package maintainer your only job is to drop info files below > /usr/share/info and the package install-info will care for the rest > by recreating the dir file from all installed info files. > > There is one problem in the info files of your packages > menu > because the files: > usr/share/info/menu.info.gz > do not ship info dir sections. Thus, calling install-info (the GNU version) > on these files issue a warning: > install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/...' > and the file is not included in the dir file. Well, it might be but this file is generated from the sgml source by debiandoc2texinfo. > The source of this problem is the following missing entry in the > texinfo source: > @dircategory Package short info > @direntry > * menu item 1: (infofile). Description. > * menu item 2: (infofile2). Description. > @end direntry > In the experimental package we still let the above warnings go through, > but with an upload to unstable they will be probably supressed. > > Can you please add an info dir entry to the texinfo files of your package > to fix these warnings. Well, I would need a fixed version of debiandoc2texinfo. Is there one already ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
