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Bug#752731: marked as done (info: clarify in 'man info' that 'info info' is in a separate package)

Your message dated Tue, 21 Oct 2014 01:05:20 +0000
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and subject line Bug#752731: fixed in texinfo 5.2.0.dfsg.1-5
has caused the Debian Bug report #752731,
regarding info: clarify in 'man info' that 'info info' is in a separate package
to be marked as done.

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Package: info
Version: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

The man page for info instructs the user to open "info info" for complete
documentation.

What it does not mention is that this documentation needs to be installed from
another package (texinfo-doc-nonfree).

Instead, "info info" prints the manpages, i.e., exactly what the user was just
reading!

This is hardly user-friendly, especially for newbies.

The doc package is currently a 'suggests', which is the appropriate dependency
according to the definitions. However, if the manpage is going to refer to
"info info", it should also clarify how to obtain that documentation!

This is basically a continuation of archived bug #428339. That bug was declared
resolved because texinfo-doc-nonfree was added as a 'suggests'. However, that
did not actually adequately resolve the problem.

This is also somewhat related to bug #484303.

Looking through other GNU tools, some mention another package is needed (tar,
gdb), and others do not (make, bash). I might file separate bugs for those.
This is the first one I discovered, so it's what I'm submitting. It's also the
most ironic. =D

This is also the first time I've created a patch, since the "bug" was so
simple.
Sorry if something's wrong!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages info depends on:
ii  install-info  5.2.0.dfsg.1-4
ii  libc6         2.19-1
ii  libtinfo5     5.9+20140118-1

info recommends no packages.

Versions of packages info suggests:
ii  texinfo-doc-nonfree  5.2.0-1

-- no debconf information

Index: texinfo-5.2.0.dfsg.1/man/ginfo.h2m
===================================================================
--- texinfo-5.2.0.dfsg.1.orig/man/ginfo.h2m
+++ texinfo-5.2.0.dfsg.1/man/ginfo.h2m
@@ -9,9 +9,13 @@
 [SEE ALSO]
 The full documentation for
 .B info
-is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
+is maintained as a Texinfo manual in a separate package,
+.B texinfo-doc-nonfree.
+If the
 .B info
-program is properly installed at your site, the command
+program and
+.B texinfo-doc-nonfree
+package are properly installed at your site, the command
 .IP
 .B info info
 .PP

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Source: texinfo
Source-Version: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-5

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
texinfo, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 752731@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org> (supplier of updated texinfo package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:33:17 +0900
Source: texinfo
Binary: texinfo info install-info
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian TeX maintainers <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>
Description:
 info       - Standalone GNU Info documentation browser
 install-info - Manage installed documentation in info format
 texinfo    - Documentation system for on-line information and printed output
Closes: 752731
Changes:
 texinfo (5.2.0.dfsg.1-5) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * mention texinfo-doc-nonfree in the info man page (Closes: #752731)
   * fix a typo in update-info-dir (thanks to Bernd Dietzel), switch
     to use sh instead of bash
   * bump standards version, no changes necessary
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