nano - packaged and ready for some criticism :)

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Sat Nov 10 20:50:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:49:01PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 04:27:38PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> >
>> >===
>> >> --> The info package should have this script -- either in
>> >/usr/bin/fix-info
>> >> or /etc/postinstall/info.sh (or both).
>> >
>> >Who is the info maintainer? Chris? Can said maintainer please put a
>> >postinstall script to regen info.dir completely in the next release....
>> 
>> I guess I'm maintaining texinfo.
>> 
>> I can do this, sure.
>> 
>> I wonder if all of the packages correctly rely on info, though.
>
>Good point.  If they install info files, then they need to call
>install-info during the setup/install process -- which means they need
>to depend on texinfo.  (I betcha my own packages don't follow this
>rule....oops)

I think that Debian has something like a "suggests" field for things
like this.

Gah.  Must... resist...  Debian...
 
cgf



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