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://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-contains-info-dir-file.html And hopefully ftpmasters will use this tag once they start auto-rejecting packages based on (some) lintian checks. > I'm going to fix my packages by patching Makefile.in so that it reads > "@if false; then \", which is simple and effective, and avoids a > "Build-Conflicts: install-info", but I believe this is actually a > problem in automake, see Bug#543992 for details. Why don't you simply remove the file in debian/rules? Note that this file removal could be done by some helper tools (like say dh_installinfo even if it's not used to install the files...). Cheers, -- Raphaƫl Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org