On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > But should we ship the wrapper or GNU install-info itself as > /usr/bin/install-info? > > If we can assure that the /usr/sbin/install-info is called from the > maintainer scripts (there /usr/sbin should be in front of /usr/bin) > I could simply drop the install-info wrapper I posted and install > GNU i-i as /usr/bin/install-info.
Relying on the order inside PATH is too fragile IMO. If you want to have the binary as install-info directly, you'll have to wait until install-info is not used any more by debian packages, i.e. for squeeze+1. Unless it's compatible enough to work in most cases as drop-in replacement. You could patch ginstall-info to be compatible with dpkg's install-info in the case where it's called from a maintainer script. That patch would be dropped in squeeze+1. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
