From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/56781 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Shutko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Debian's install-info Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:54:35 -0600 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87u10guy3o.fsf@wesley.springies.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080006952 5556 80.91.224.253 (23 Mar 2004 01:55:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 01:55:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5320@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Mar 23 02:55:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5b8q-0003vN-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 02:55:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B5b8c-0007oU-00; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:55:30 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1B5b8V-0007oO-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:55:23 -0600 Original-Received: from simon.springies.com (125-102.bestdsl.net [216.162.125.102]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 944B63A0043 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:55:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from wesley.springies.com (wesley.springies.com [192.168.1.2]) by simon.springies.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD88F481C for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:55:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by wesley.springies.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0B1714292C; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:55:21 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:26:49 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56781 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:56781 Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > Does anyone know why does Gnus exclude Debian's install-info > program? Here is an extract from the texi/Makefile.in file: Debian uses an install-info program which is not compatible with the GNU version. Or, at least, used to. There were some murmurings about switching or making them compatible, but I don't believe it's happened. -- Alan Shutko - I am the rocks.