Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

2002-08-31 Thread Joey Hess
>I am trying to get the glibc debian cvs for 2.2.92 to > package (it builds and passes make check fine on debian > ppc sid with the new gcc 3.2.1pre). However the buggy > perl 5.80 in sid has broken install-info. I looked at > a Yellow Dog Linux machine and noticed, however, that they > had a

Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

2002-08-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:09:04PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > the perl version we have. Why is that and why don't we > just NMU texinfo in sid to start building a binary > install-info until perl 5.80's regex stops leaking > memory like a sieve? Why wouldn't we fix perl instead? You're not on

Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

2002-08-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:26:17PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > What amazes me here the most is that the first thing that pops into your > > head as a solution is a non-maintainer upload. > > > > My god, sometimes I really think we need to raise the bar even higher. > > As long as people

Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

2002-08-31 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:15:51PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > What amazes me here the most is that the first thing that pops into your > head as a solution is a non-maintainer upload. > > My god, sometimes I really think we need to raise the bar even higher. As long as people are only talking

Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

2002-08-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:09:04PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > I looked at a Yellow Dog Linux machine and noticed, however, that they had > a texinfo 4.2 source package that builds an info package with a binary > /usr/sbin/install-info instead of the perl version we have. Why is that > and why don

Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

2002-08-30 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:09:04PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: >I am trying to get the glibc debian cvs for 2.2.92 to > package (it builds and passes make check fine on debian > ppc sid with the new gcc 3.2.1pre). However the buggy > perl 5.80 in sid has broken install-info. I looked at > a Yel

Re: why is /usr/sbin/install-info a perl script!!!

2002-08-30 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Jack Howarth wrote: >I am trying to get the glibc debian cvs for 2.2.92 to > package (it builds and passes make check fine on debian > ppc sid with the new gcc 3.2.1pre). However the buggy > perl 5.80 in sid has broken install-info. I looked at > a Yellow Dog Linux machine