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Subject: install-info syntax does not agree with `other' install-info program
From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai=?iso-8859-1?q?_Gro=DFjohann?=)
Date: 09 Mar 2000 21:17:39 +0100
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.6.9

I would like to urge you (again) to consider the install-info program.
Having a Debian install-info which is similar to, but different from,
the same program on other systems, is getting _really_ inconvenient.
These days, most software packages come with Makefiles which contain
calls to `install-info'.  These Makefiles normally presume the command
line syntax as provided by TeXinfo.

If I want to install such a software package, it is not sufficient to
say "./configure <args> && make && make install".  Instead, I have to
look very closely at what the installation process is trying to do and
to work my way around it.

I hope you aren't trying to dissuade people from installing software
from the source themselves?  There are a number of perfectly valid
reasons for this, so please don't make it more difficult than it has
to be.

If you don't want to replace your install-info with another program of
the same name, a few possibilities exist:

* Change your program such that it understands the same options as
  install-info from the most recent TeXinfo.  (This time, it was
  `install-info foo.info /path/to/info/dir'.)

* Rename your program.

Pretty please?  Pretty pretty pretty please?

kai
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