[sverkerw@swipnet.se: Re: Bug#121884: cutils: Info page sorted under "Scheme Programming"]

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

Hi all,

Here's some discussion about bug#121884, where cutils seems to end up
in the wrong section in the info directory. We think this might be
a bug in install-info, provided by dpkg.

guile1.3-doc (in stable only, fwiw) uses section Scheme Programming,
and cutils uses just Programming, and in the resulting directory,
both are listed under Scheme Programming, which is wrong.

Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-dpkg.

thanks,
Hamish

----- Forwarded message from Sverker Wiberg <sverkerw@swipnet.se> -----

Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 16:56:34 +0100
To: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#121884: cutils: Info page sorted under "Scheme Programming"
From: Sverker Wiberg <sverkerw@swipnet.se>

Hamish Moffatt writes:
 > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:45:07PM +0100, Sverker Wiberg wrote:
 > > Package: cutils
 > > Version: 1.6-2
 > > Severity: minor
 > > 
 > > As seen in my Emacs-21 info directory:
 > > 
 > >   Scheme Programming
 > >   * cutils: (cutils).        C programmers' utilities.
 > >   * guile-ref: (guile-ref).  The Guile Reference Manual.
 > 
 > That's odd. It's in section "Programming" here (I'm looking with tkinfo),
 > which is just as the info file says:
 > 
 > [9:41am] hamish@noddy:misc/cutils/cutils-1.6> zcat /usr/share/info/cutils.info.gz | head -10
 > This is cutils.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.0b from cutils.texi.
 > 
 > INFO-DIR-SECTION Programming
 > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
 > * cutils: (cutils).       C programmers' utilities.
 > END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
 > 
 > 
 > File: cutils.info,  Node: Top,  Next: Overview,  Prev: (dir),  Up: (dir)
 > 
 > 
 > I couldn't find a package which supplied guile-ref either. Maybe there
 > is a problem with it?

I got it from guile1.3-doc, and its info file looks O.K. to me:

  bash-2.05a$ zcat /usr/info/guile-ref.info.gz | head -10
  This is Info file guile-ref.info, produced by Makeinfo version 1.68
  from the input file guile-ref.texi.

  INFO-DIR-SECTION Scheme Programming
  START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  * guile-ref: (guile-ref).  The Guile Reference Manual.
  END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
  
     Guile Reference Manual Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation
  Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation

Hmmm...I just purged and reinstalled 'cutils' (still 1.6-2) and it was
removed from the Info-dir as it should, then reappeared in the 'Scheme
Programming' section.

I just realized that that section and 'Programming Languages' are the
only two sections containing the word "Programming", and the Scheme
one is the first one listed (no section named simply
'Programming'). Methinks /usr/sbin/install-info rather adds to 'Scheme
Programming' section than creating a new 'Programming' section.

I think this bug should be reassigned to the 'dpkg' package.

/Sverker Wiberg

Versions of packages mentioned:
ii  guile1.3-doc   1998.09.01-1   Documentation to libguile3 and guile1.3
ii  dpkg           1.9.18         Package maintenance system for Debian

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