On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:19:48AM -0600, TheSin wrote:
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> since I know nothing about InfoDocs:
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> could someone tell me what this means?
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> No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
> install-info(/sw/share/info/gengetopt.info): unable to determine  
> description for `dir' entry - giving up
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing gengetopt (--install):

The messages are quite literal in what is missing: you need to add a
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY block or a "This file documents" paragraph to
gengetopt.info. The former gives more control and a more organized
texinfo index for the user. The gnuplot.info file is a clear example:

>INFO-DIR-SECTION Texinfo documentation system
>START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>* Texi2html: (texi2html).  Texinfo to HTML Converter.
>END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

The IDS line indicates the section within the document dir where this
will be placed, and the line in the SIDR...EIDE block indicates the
index entry in the form "* $ItemName: ($infofilename).  $Description."

The latter is a quick slap-it-together way, and is what the existing
(10.[34]/unstable) package does. To quote the beginning of its file:

>This is gengetopt.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.8 from
>gengetopt.texinfo.
>
>   This file documents GNU Gengetopt, a tool to write option parsers
>for C programs.
>

The sentence contains the same info as the index entry but does not
contain the section in the dir.

dan

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Daniel Macks
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