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From: | Michael Stone |
Subject: | Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation |
Date: | Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:19:38 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:51:54PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
mstone> The debian install-info routine (IIRC) predates the gnu install-info,That wasn't my understanding, but I never actually researched it. I was not aware of any Debian ii at the time that rms wrote GNU ii (I was maintaining Texinfo by then -- 1996
I could be wrong, it was a very long time ago. :) The debian version dates from '94, not sure if you're saying if the gnu one was written in '96 or that's when you became involved.
and hasn't been updated to recognize certain directives in newer info files.The main directive (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY) has been there basically since the beginning of Info, not just install-info. I am pretty sure Debian ii recognizes it, otherwise it wouldn't do anything useful at all.
I think the issue is that it only groks one START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY, and isn't aware of what to do when there is more than one wrapped in INFO-DIR-SECTION directives.
I am aware of the effort to unify the two, and that's definitely a good thing. I'm also not going to count on all the stars aligning before the next debian release, hence my search for a workaround. :-)
Mike Stone
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