Re: Beware with /usr/share/info/dir.gz bugs

2009-08-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > > This is to warn interested parties that now that install-info is > > GNU install-info, the probability of a package shipping a file named > > /usr/share/info/dir.gz by mistake is now much higher than before

Re: Beware with /usr/share/info/dir.gz bugs

2009-08-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > This is to warn interested parties that now that install-info is > GNU install-info, the probability of a package shipping a file named > /usr/share/info/dir.gz by mistake is now much higher than before. Note that lintian catches that: http://lintia

Beware with /usr/share/info/dir.gz bugs

2009-08-28 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. This is to warn interested parties that now that install-info is GNU install-info, the probability of a package shipping a file named /usr/share/info/dir.gz by mistake is now much higher than before. Some packages using automake have a Makefile.in like this: install-info-am: [...]