[PATCH setup 0/3] Setup replacement for incver_ifdep

[Jon Turney]

On 12/10/2015 18:38, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Jon Turney writes:
>> On 22/09/2015 16:52, Jon Turney wrote:
[...]
> As for your patches, I think that the first two (getting rid of the
> regex engine and the incomplete implementation of autodep: lines) are
> non-controversial and should be applied.

Ok, thanks.

> I still don't think the triggers should be implemented or at least not
> in the way you've been proposing.

Can you explain the reason why?

> I've meanwhile looked a bit deeper on what it would take to update the
> info dir using perpetual scripts and it seems it is about the same
> effort as the incremental autorebase.  The easiest path would be to keep
> the script the same as it is now and just check if a package with info
> files got installed or removed.

I think that's more or less what I implemented.

> But it would be possible to just add /
> remove the corresponding entries with a bit more bookkeeping.  I'll try
> something of that, but not immediately.

I guess that list of matching files added/removed could be written into 
or associated with the trigger file, but the benefit starts to look a 
bit marginal, (especially as this is not intended as a general solution, 
but only for use with _update-info-dir, and other future 
package-to-package triggers are written directly in the packages themselves)