[Chicken-users] Re: Installing as non-root fails with Chicken 2.732

[Ivan Shmakov]

        IIUC, the problem exists only when using the `install-info'
        script provided by the `dpkg' package on Debian systems (and
        derivatives.)  I haven't checked any recent GNU Texinfo
        distributions, but since `/var/backups' is somewhat
        Debian-specific, I believe that the `install-info' variant
        provided by Texinfo is free from the defect.

        Also, a recent version of Debian `texinfo' package
        (4.11.dfsg.1-2) seems to provide its own version of
        `install-info', which contains no references to `/var/backups'.
        (Basically, it's just a wrapper around GNU `install-info', which
        is available as `ginstall-info' from the same package.)

        Furthermore, as stated in `debian/transition-plan.txt', there're
        plans to supply `update-info-dir', thus effectively depreciating
        both the use of `install-info' and the use of back-up copies for
        `dir' files in Debian packaging.

        The outcome is:

        * GNU `install-info' may have no problems with non-root use
          (although I didn't check it);

        * Debian `install-info', although causing the problem, will
          probably be abandoned and replaced with a more reasonable
          wrapper.