Re: Texinfo 6.8 released

2021-07-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 04:52:43AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Gavin, hi all, > > thanks a lot, I did put texinfo 6.8 into Debian/experimental for now > since we are in deep freeze before release. > > One comment, pushing this version to my packaging repo on github I got a > lot of securi

Re: Texinfo 6.8 released

2021-07-06 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Gavin, hi all, thanks a lot, I did put texinfo 6.8 into Debian/experimental for now since we are in deep freeze before release. One comment, pushing this version to my packaging repo on github I got a lot of security warnings ... https://github.com/debian-tex/texinfo/security/dependabot Just

Re: Texinfo 6.8 released

2021-07-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/6/2021 10:08 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 2:09 PM Ken Brown wrote: It was just reported on the Cygwin mailing list that makeinfo can't be used in a pipeline any more: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-July/248849.html I assume this is not an intentional chang

Re: Texinfo 6.8 released

2021-07-06 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 09:04:29AM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > > It was just reported on the Cygwin mailing list that makeinfo can't be used > in a pipeline any more: > > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-July/248849.html > > I assume this is not an intentional change. My guess is that t

Re: Texinfo 6.8 released

2021-07-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 2:09 PM Ken Brown wrote: > It was just reported on the Cygwin mailing list that makeinfo can't be used > in a > pipeline any more: > >https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-July/248849.html > > I assume this is not an intentional change. It wasn't: it is due to the

Re: Texinfo 6.8 released

2021-07-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/3/2021 7:44 AM, Gavin Smith wrote: We have released version 6.8 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation format. This package contains tools to produce documentation in various formats, including HTML and PDF, from source files in the Texinfo format. Texinfo is a text-based format with commands f

Re: texinfo-6.8: Test failing

2021-07-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Gavin Smith > Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 13:10:59 +0100 > Cc: pertu...@free.fr, chris2...@googlemail.com, bug-texinfo@gnu.org > > > What will happen on platforms that don't have the 'locale' command > > installed (MS-Windows)? Should the code perhaps refrain from invoking > > the command if i

Re: texinfo-6.8: Test failing

2021-07-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 02:39:09PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Gavin Smith > > Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 23:09:10 +0100 > > > > In commit 8e53ffed59 I added code to run "locale -a" as a backup; hopefully > > this will mostly resolve this issue. > > What will happen on platforms that don't

Re: texinfo-6.8: Test failing

2021-07-06 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Gavin Smith > Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 23:09:10 +0100 > > In commit 8e53ffed59 I added code to run "locale -a" as a backup; hopefully > this will mostly resolve this issue. What will happen on platforms that don't have the 'locale' command installed (MS-Windows)? Should the code perhaps re

Re: texinfo-6.8: Test failing

2021-07-06 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:09:10PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > > In commit 8e53ffed59 I added code to run "locale -a" as a backup; hopefully > this will mostly resolve this issue. Looks good to me. Some testing on platforms that do not have the en_US locales and also do not have locale -a (if su

Re: texinfo-6.8: Test failing

2021-07-06 Thread Chris Clayton
On 05/07/2021 23:09, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 06:09:37PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 11:36:55AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: >>> >>> Yes I agree, if we can't make the test pass in the case that no locales >>> are installed. >>> >>> It's a frustrating pr