From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Debian: Avoid install-info errors on "make install"? Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:23:07 +0100 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84k7g3z05g.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84k7g9jxte.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <3E495BD6.8030701@ihs.com> <84heb9apbx.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <87adgzalgj.fsf@server.crasseux.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045214602 18294 80.91.224.249 (14 Feb 2003 09:23:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:23:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18jc40-0004kg-00 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:23:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18jc65-0002xQ-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:25:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951faea.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951faea.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.250.234) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045214628 46998196 217.81.250.234 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/21ITJwqFSq5PZ4oMdcXKcRawGA= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110178 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6681 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6681 Bijan Soleymani writes: > kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes: > >> Debian has its own install-info. It writes the right dir entries, it >> seems, but it /additionally/ references /var/backups. >> >> The Debian folk say that their install-info does exactly what Debian >> needs. But I'm afraid it doesn't do what I need. I'd be happy about >> a regular install-info as distributed with GNU Texinfo. But that >> will never happen (I mean they never will distribute it), I'm afraid. > > I still don't understand the big conflict between the two versions of > install-info. Why won't Debian ever distribute it? What's wrong with > the version that comes with texinfo. > > In any case if you want the behaviour of the other install-info why > not just use that during the installation procedure. If I had the GNU version, I'd be a happy camper. But I didn't want to install GNU Texinfo from source just because of this. The Debian folks started the whole thing, their install-info is older than the GNU version. So it's understandable that they are somewhat reluctant to ditch their version. But in the end, how about you ask them to change it? (If you're a Debian user.) That could be quite useful either way: either you get an explanation about why they don't want to do it, or they do it and make me happy :-) -- A turnip curses Elvis