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Re: attn gzip and info maintainer
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:33:50AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to Christopher Faylor on 4/24/2007 6:26 AM:
>> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe.
>>> This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9,
>>> gunzip is merely a symlink (and the new coreutils no longer adds implicit
>>> and confusing .exe extensions to symlinks).
>>
>> Are you saying that info uses coreutils to start gunzip somehow?
>
>No, I'm stating that info invokes 'gunzip.exe',
If I do a 'strings' on info.exe, I see the strings 'bzip2' and 'gzip' without
extensions.
>coreutils 6.9 runs the coreutils postinstall script, which renames all
>symlinks in /bin with .exe suffixes to avoid the suffix (consistent with
>its new behavior of ln -s).
I have to admit that my eyes glaze over when people start talking about
.exe extensions so I wasn't paying attention (my bad) when this decision
was made. I don't remember, however, this decision being put to a vote
for package maintainers because I definitely would have voted for each
maintainer fixing their package rather than having you do it for us.
cgf
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