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Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?


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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