On Sunday 23 October 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > On Monday 17 October 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> >> +++ b/ChangeLog
> >> @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
> >> +2011-10-17  Jonathan Nieder  <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> >> +
> >> +	For Debian Bug#543992:
> >> +	* lib/am/texinfos.am (install-info-am): When deciding whether to
> >> +	add to an info/dir file, instead of checking for Debian
> >> +	install-info, check if DESTDIR is nonempty.
> [...]
> > I must say that I don't like this very much.  A better fix IMHO would
> > be to have an environment variable to inhibit the creation/updating of
> > the `${infodir}/dir' file
> 
> Yes, that sounds sensible.  It would be better than checking for
> Debian install-info (because that was insane) and better than the
> current state (because it gives packagers on all distros an easy way
> to request inhibiting creation of the ${infodir}/dir file).
> 
> Keying behavior on $(DESTDIR) left an unpleasant taste in my mouth,
> too.  Thanks for your thoughtfulness.
> 
Glad we agree :-)

Here is my proposed patch (for maint).  I will push in 72 hours if there
is no objection or review by then.

Thanks,
  Stefano