On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 16:38:23 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Rather than forcing the removal or upgrade of various info browsers > before dpkg, let dpkg provide the install-info functionality for > another release. Other packages will still depend on install-info > directly so the dependency can be dropped in wheezy. > > The cost is around 256 KiB. > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> > --- > Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Julien Cristau wrote: > > >> Possibly the breaks is a bad idea for anything that's more than just an > >> info viewer. > > > > Info viewers, too, right?
Not so much I think. At least info viewers should be easier to upgrade and less of a loss if removed. And they're actually broken by a missing install-info. konqueror and emacs aren't. > In other words, how about something like this patch? > I don't think that's a good idea at this point. A year ago, maybe. One issue Sven mentioned on irc is that an unknown number of packages would start shipping /usr/share/info/dir.gz on rebuild if we were to do this. Cheers, Julien
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