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[bug#74190] [PATCH v2 3/3] gnu: info-reader: Inherit from texinfo-7.


From: Florian Pelz
Subject: [bug#74190] [PATCH v2 3/3] gnu: info-reader: Inherit from texinfo-7.
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:49:12 +0100

Otherwise `LC_ALL=pt_BR.utf8 info` crashes.

* gnu/packages/texinfo.scm (info-reader): Inherit from texinfo-7.

Change-Id: I9eb5873fbc115e0c45f96a16aa05dbca76b92c57
---
A Web search points at the cause of the Texinfo crash being a typo
in Texinfo’s own po file translations.  If so, Texinfo 6 could be
patched alternatively.
<https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/curr
ent-texinfo-fails-with-pt_br-locale-4175703232/>

 gnu/packages/texinfo.scm | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/texinfo.scm b/gnu/packages/texinfo.scm
index 81afdaf7a7..cd474bb566 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/texinfo.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/texinfo.scm
@@ -194,7 +194,9 @@ (define-public texinfo-4
 (define-public info-reader
   ;; The idea of this package is to have the standalone Info reader without
   ;; the dependency on Perl that 'makeinfo' drags.
-  (package/inherit texinfo
+  ;; Texinfo version must be at least 7.0, which fixed crashes in a pt_BR
+  ;; locale; see <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/plain/NEWS>.
+  (package/inherit texinfo-7
     (name "info-reader")
     (arguments
      `(,@(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments texinfo)
-- 
2.46.0






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