On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Jack Howarth wrote: > Has there ever been any discussion of the binary > /usr/sbin/install-info in terms of the Linux Standard > Base? I ask because dpkg is providing a perl based > version of this utility whereas all other distros > appear to be using binary only version. This came up > because the regex in perl 5.80 is buggy and breaks > the perl install-info for building glibc now. As a > workaround I rebuilt texinfo-4.2 with all of the redhat > install-info related patches and substituted this > binary only version for the one dpkg installs. While > this version is sufficient for building the packages > there does appear to be some incompatibilities related > to installing glibc-doc with this version of install-info. > I am wondering if we aren't violating the spirit > if not the letter of LSB by using a non-standard version > of install-info. Wouldn't it be better to move install-info > out of dpkg, add any required additional functionality > to the texinfo version of install-info and push those > changes upstream to the texinfo maintainers? Since > install-info is being called at both the Makefile level > in builds as well as at the packager level (eg rpm or > dpkg) it seems that we would be much better off if the > install-info used by debian was uniform with what > everyone else is using (be it a perl or binary version). > Any comments?
Yes. you're a moron.
