Re: Testing TeXinfo 7.2.90 packages?

Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-02-23 15:06:17 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> For the moment, I've checked
> 
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484740
> 
> about a bug in the "info" utility for the resolution of cross references,
> and and while this bug seems to have been fixed in trixie (7.1.1-1+b1)
> and in 7.2-5, it has reappeared in 7.2.92-1 (with internal behavior a
> bit different from 6.8-6, according to strace)!

I reported it upstream:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2026-02/msg00107.html

While testing the patch, I've found an issue with the Debian packaging:
if I run "debuild -i -us -uc -b" twice, I get an error.

[...]
# install all the files
dh_install
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/vlefevre/tmp/texinfo-7.2.92'
   dh_installdocs
dh_installdocs: error: Cannot find (any matches for) "doc/refcard/txirefcard*.pdf" (tried in ., debian/tmp)

make: *** [debian/rules:27: binary] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess failed with exit status 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1185:
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui -i -b failed
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