[Fink-devel] Re: CVS: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.216,1.217PkgVersion.pm,1.92,1.93

[Max Horn]

[for context: I just changed Engine.pm in CVS to use --info-dir instead of --infodir as argument to install-info, as I got repeatedly error reports by people which have /usr/bin before /sw/sbin in their PATH; thus for them the texinfo install-info was used, not the dpkg install-info we normally use. Problem is, the texinfo one doesn't support --infodir]

At 16:45 Uhr -0500 11.11.2002, David R. Morrison wrote:

Max, haven't you substituted one problem for another with this change?
For a long time, we've used the dpkg version of install-info not the
texinfo one.  Will it accept the other syntax?  If not, you're creating
a situation where people will make debs that other people can't install...

I guess you will know more about texinfo than I do (which is not much :-). see above for my motivation to make the change.

Are the inputs/outputs of the two install-info's actually incompatible? If so, then a better "fix" would be to hardcode %p/sbin/install-info in the pre/postinstscripts. No problem to change this.


Cheers,

Max
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