Bug 26480

Summary:	Remove automatic addition of info-install from rpms with info files (e.g. bash)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Joseph Wang <joequant>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ftg, lewyssmith, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	rpm-mageia-setup-build-2.53-4.mga8	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	bash dependency diagram

Description Joseph Wang 2020-04-14 14:25:56 CEST

Description of problem:

The build system has a rule that automatically requires info-install whenever
a package has .info files.  This creates bloat for packages such as bash.

Note that info-install requires user action to execute.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install bash
2. see that it requires a lot of packages

I can find this problem, but what feedback if this is the right thing to do

Comment 1 Joseph Wang 2020-04-14 14:26:36 CEST

Created attachment 11587 [details]
bash dependency diagram

Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2020-04-14 22:04:33 CEST

My immediate thought was that if a package uses INFO, it wants it. However, man pages for such programs say "if you have info installed...", implying that they can live without it. Unsure of the importance of 'info-install' re 'info':
info:
 A stand-alone TTY-based reader for GNU texinfo documentation
info-install:
 Program to update the GNU texinfo documentation main page

$ urpmq --requires info | grep info
 libtinfo.so.6()(64bit)
$ urpmq --requires-recursive info | grep info
 info-install
The latter does not require info.

Are you suggesting that we change all these programs to make info optional: 'recommends' rather than 'requires' perhaps? I am not qualified to say.
 $ urpmq --requires bash | grep info
info-install
libtinfo.so.6()(64bit)

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 3 Frank Griffin 2020-04-14 22:16:48 CEST

Most man pages are coded in tex.  The info versions are available if wanted, but can usually be looked up online.

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2020-04-16 09:30:27 CEST

This was fixed 2 minutes before you opening your bug report :-)
Those deps are no more emitted.
Affected packages will lost this dep on next rebuild…

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 5 Lewis Smith 2020-04-16 21:10:59 CEST

Thanks Thierry!