On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Ian Jackson wrote: > Package: debian-policy, emacs19, glibc-doc > Version: not known, 19.34-21, 2.1.1-12 > > I have: > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: > uppercase=bad) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-===============-==============-============================================ > ii emacs19 19.34-21 The GNU Emacs editor. > ii emacs19-el 19.34-21 GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files. > ii emacsen-common 1.4.8 Common facilities for all emacsen. > ii glibc-doc 2.1.1-12 GNU C Library: Documentation > > When I look at /usr/info/dir it has an entry for libc. However, > libc.info is in /usr/share/info, not /usr/info, and Emacs can't find > it.
I think this is a bug in the emacs built-in info reader. The ordinary info program works fine. > I think this is a bug in policy, which encouraged people to change the > locations of info files without thinking about transition. I did actually think about transition of the info files. Please read my post about the info transition some months ago. I would suggest the emacs maintainer to reassign this bug to emacs19. Thanks. -- "f9da4c96f65d172cbe47578105444627" (a truly random sig)
