I went ahead and rewrote a bit the plan and removed stuff that did not seem to apply to this transition and placed it in a wiki page, <http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo>. Hope you don't mind.
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 08:49:07 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mi, 11 Mär 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > + Changes in texinfo > > > - a new install-info package replaces dpkg's install-info > > > > Given that we have other info viewers, that seems better than bundling > > it in the info or texinfo packages. > > Here immediately some questions: I can start preparing a separate > install-info bin package for experimental, but > - should we install GNU install-info into /usr/bin where there is > ginstall-info ATM, or into /usr/sbin, where there is dpkg ii? > I would suggest /usr/bin. I think it'd be better to not entangle those two changes, so I'd put it in the same place as the current install-info from dpkg. A transition from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin could be done later. > - can you prepare a dpkg experimental package that does not ship ii but > depends on install-info? As per the transition plan dpkg will still ship a dummy script that warns the users, this way we don't need dpkg to depend on install-info. So you only need to add a Replaces against dpkg. Also you should be able to upload this to unstable whenever you are ready w/o waiting for anyone. > - I would ship an ii package that conflicts with dpkg < experimental and > then we could try the whole thing out. See above. > > > > > - This install-info should support the current dpkg's install-info > > > options (i.e. no failures, but not necessarily registering the info > > > file) > > that would mean a shell/perl script as /usr/bin/install-info that in > turn calls /usr/bin/ginstall-info, and warns in case we are called with > a non-supported argument. Either that, or extend GNU's install-info to accept the other old arguments as no-ops. Once all Info files have been fixed the wrapper could be replaced by the real thing. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org