Andy Wingo <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu 14 Apr 2011 10:18, David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes: > >> Andy Wingo <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Tue 12 Apr 2011 14:00, David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes: >>> >>>> In the guile manual (listed as >>>> ii guile-1.6-doc >>> >>> For words that aren't ten years old, try Guile 2.0, which fixes this >>> issue, among others. >> >> It is the version of guile with the API used in the very latest versions >> of Debian and Ubuntu (to be released), so the "10 year old words" will >> stick around for at least a year. > > I believe they also package guile-1.8-doc, which are merely 5 year old > words.
Well, that explains some. It would appear that a) docs are not installed by default, one has to install them manually b) there is no metapackage guile-doc, so one has to specify versions explicitly c) once one installs guile-1.6-doc, dpkg is happy to keep it around even when one upgrades guile to 1.8 d) deinstalling guile-1.6-doc after installing guile-1.8-doc*, one needs to look for the file "guile-1.8" as info. guile.info no longer is there, even after running dpkg-reconfigure on the guile-1.8-doc* packages. e) the documentation for reduce indeed is quite better. -- David Kastrup
