Bug 275641

Summary:	[Future EAPI] "newinfo" command
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Ulrich Müller <ulm>
Component:	PMS/EAPI	Assignee:	PMS/EAPI <pms>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	esigra
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	174380

Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2009-06-27 20:54:08 UTC

For some reason "doinfo" doesn't have a "newinfo" partner. This is inconsistent since almost all "do*" commands have one.

I think the most common usage case would be something like "newinfo foo foo.info" for packages that come with extensionless info files. See app-emacs/gnus or app-emacs/org-mode for real-life examples.

Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2009-06-29 18:12:18 UTC

Let's use this bug as our first for the new way of status tracking.

Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2010-10-07 06:47:19 UTC

Let's postpone this until the issues of bug 306445 have been sorted out.

Comment 3 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2010-10-25 00:09:48 UTC

Reopening for proper closing.

Looks like the only clean way to get an info file with a different name is to change the argument of @setfilename in the texinfo source file. Simply renaming the info file may break cross references. Therefore, a "newinfo" command is not a good idea.