Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sat Nov 1 17:35:00 GMT 2014
On Nov 1 12:07, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/1/2014 11:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Oct 31 16:24, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> >>On 2014-10-31 16:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>On Oct 31 16:47, Ken Brown wrote:
> >>>>Sounds good to me. I'll repackage within a few days. Thanks.
> >>>
> >>>We need to make sure that the existing dependencies to texinfo
> >>>are still correct afterwards. 22 packages are affected:
> >>>
> >>> _update-info-dir
> >>
> >>info
> >>
> >>> a2ps
> >>
> >>texinfo-tex
> >>
> >>> autoconf all of them
> >>
> >>Not sure this is needed.
> >>
> >>> automake all of them
> >>
> >>texinfo, although this is a soft dependency.
> >>
> >>> cygport
> >>
> >>info (minimal build environment)
> >>
> >>> docbook2X
> >>
> >>texinfo
> >>
> >>> indent
> >>
> >>Not sure this is needed either.
> >
> >The only reason I can think of is that indent comes with an info file
> >/usr/share/info/indent.info. But that would mean we'd have to add
> >dependencies to the info package for all packages coming with an info
> >page. Analog for packages containing man pages a depedeny to man-db.
> >
> >This might go a bit far, I guess...
>
> Packages with an info file don't automatically get a dependency on texinfo
> (in the current setup). So this must have been done manually by Jari for
> some reason. But I think packages with an info file do get an automatic
> dependency on _update-info-dir, so that will bring in the new info package.
>
> In any case, I was thinking the new info package ought to be in the Base
> category anyway, for the same reason that man-db is in Base. But I don't
> have strong feelings about this.
Sure, info in Base makes sense.
Corinna
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