On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:29:04PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
I think that this may actually be a bug in our info package. I don't have a bug reference on-hand but I think it's something like how dpkg's install-info script does not understand the texinfo directives that tell it how to correctly generate the directory of .info files; therefore until dpkg's install-info script is replaced by texinfo's (currently packaged as ginstall-info), *all* our man pages that tell the user to run things like 'info ls' are incorrect. The user needs to run 'info coreutils ls' instead.
As mentioned in other, similar bug logs, "info coreutils ls" is also incorrect in the general case. (It's searching the coreutils node for the first match for the given parameter, rather than going to a particular subsection. E.g., "info coreutils pr" will get you the "printing text" subsection rather than the pr command.) There isn't a thing I can do to fix this (in coreutils *or* any of the other affected packages, coreutils only being the most prominant); the fix needs to come from install-info.
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