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Subject: RE: attn gzip and info maintainer
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:30:36 +0100
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On 24 April 2007 13:26, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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?
> 
> cgf


  Because the other option would be for the gunzip post-install script to
explicitly create an exe-extensioned symlink in addition to the standard
gunzip one, no?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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