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[Gavin D. Smith]

branch: master
commit b8d6ff82a8444eafa74752e7170e3dcb1e3177e8
Author: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 10 16:46:40 2023 +0000

    * doc/info-stnd.texi (Invoking Info), NEWS:
    Remove "/index" as possible info file extension, as the
    purpose of this is obscure, it is not a proper file extension
    and looks like a mistake, even though it isn't one.
    Originally added 1997-08-06 by Matthew Wilcox to put split info
    files in subdirectories in infodir.
    * doc/filesys.c (info_suffixes): Remove "/index".
---
 ChangeLog          | 10 ++++++++++
 NEWS               |  3 +++
 doc/info-stnd.texi |  2 +-
 info/filesys.c     |  1 -
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 22c081db73..babee5dd09 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2023-01-10  Gavin Smith  <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
+
+       * doc/info-stnd.texi (Invoking Info), NEWS:
+       Remove "/index" as possible info file extension, as the
+       purpose of this is obscure, it is not a proper file extension
+       and looks like a mistake, even though it isn't one.
+       Originally added 1997-08-06 by Matthew Wilcox to put split info
+       files in subdirectories in infodir.
+       * doc/filesys.c (info_suffixes): Remove "/index".
+
 2023-01-09  Gavin Smith  <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
 
        * install-info/install-info.c (split_entry):
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ec350b13fd..565c72967e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ See the manual for detailed information.
  . page headings generation is no longer linked to the @titlepage command
  . microtype is off by default, for speed
 
+* info
+ . do not use "/index" as a possible file extension for Info files
+
 
 7.0.1 (30 November 2022)
 This is a bug-fix release with minimal changes.
diff --git a/doc/info-stnd.texi b/doc/info-stnd.texi
index 2eadd31963..9979a20f4a 100644
--- a/doc/info-stnd.texi
+++ b/doc/info-stnd.texi
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ authors.
 If no entry is found in the directories, Info looks for files in its
 search path with names based on @var{manual}.  If @var{manual} is
 not found, Info looks for it with a number of known extensions of Info
-files, namely @file{.info}, @file{-info}, @file{/index}, and @file{.inf}.
+files, namely @file{.info}, @file{-info}, and @file{.inf}.
 For every known extension, if a regular file is not found, Info looks
 for a compressed file.  Info supports files compressed with @code{gzip},
 @code{xz}, @code{bzip2}, @code{lzip}, @code{lzma}, @code{compress} and
diff --git a/info/filesys.c b/info/filesys.c
index 99497bbfb0..207308a7e9 100644
--- a/info/filesys.c
+++ b/info/filesys.c
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ typedef struct
 static char *info_suffixes[] = {
   ".info",
   "-info",
-  "/index",
   ".inf",       /* 8+3 file on filesystem which supports long file names */
 #ifdef __MSDOS__
   /* 8+3 file names strike again...  */