texinfo breakage

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 16 11:28:56 PDT 2003


On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 06:50, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>> I plan on adding INFO support to portlint very soon.
> > Done.  Please let me know what you think.
> 
> I love it! :-)
> 
> 
> Just one nit, if you don't mind:
> 
>   FATAL: .../cfengine2/pkg-plist 19: numbered info files are no longer supported;
> 
> It's less that they are not supported, but that using split (or numbered)
> info files is non-portable, as different versions of makeinfo will generate
> a different of such files.  Perhaps something like "deprecated and not
> portable"?

Deprecated has the connotation of "works but not recommended."  How
about, "obsolete and not portable?"

Joe

> 
> Gerald
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Joe Marcus Clarke
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