Re: Using GNU's install-info in Debian instead of dpkg's install-info

[Ian Zimmerman]

Karl> I like the idea of being able to regenerate the dir file from
Karl> installed info files much more.  And in fact the Texinfo
Karl> distribution includes several scripts (fix-info-dir, gen-dir-node,
Karl> maybe others) to do just that.  None of them ever seemed to be
Karl> "installable" quality.  If that can be added to install-info
Karl> (yikes) or one or another of the scripts made more robust so it
Karl> could be a standard installed program, that would be great.

But, for me to consider it a solution, it would have to be run
by packages in their post-installs, which means manual edits would
be overwritten.

Maybe another idea:  keep a part of the file explicitly reserved
for manual additions, delimit it with some markers.  Anything outside
is fair game for packages.  There is precedent for this in Debian,
e.g. the handling of xorg.conf.

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