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

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

2002-08-30 Thread Jack Howarth
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 texinfo 4.2