Bug#59332: general: Info files are installed in different directories, index broken
> > Package: general
> > Version: 20000229
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > The index file for the info files only works for files in /usr/info. Info files
> > that are in /usr/share/info are not accessible even though they are listed.
>
> They are accesible for me, I tried with info and pinfo viewers. What program
> did you use? That's where the bug should be reassigned...
I used Emacs. I don't think the problem is just with Emacs, it is
with packages that install the info files into /usr/info instead of
/usr/share/info. If Emacs used the /usr/share/info/dir directory file
then it would miss the files in /usr/info. There is no way of Emacs
working unless all the files are in the same directory.
The /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.text.gz document says:
: 6.2. Info documents
: -------------------
:
: Info documents should be installed in `/usr/share/info'. They should
: be compressed with `gzip -9'.
These packages that I have installed are doing it correctly:
g2:~# dpkg -l `dpkg -S /usr/share/info/\* | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq`
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 automake 1.4-6 A tool for generating GNU Standards-complian
ii bison 1.28-5 A parser generator that is compatible with Y
ii cpio 2.4.2-30 GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of
ii dc 1.05a-9 The GNU dc arbitrary precision reverse-polis
ii diff 2.7-20 File comparison utilities
ii ed 0.2-18 The classic unix line editor
ii emacs-lisp-int 1.05-3 Programming in Emacs Lisp: An Introduction
ii emacs19 19.34-26.1 The GNU Emacs editor.
ii exim-doc 3.10-1 Exim MTA info documentation
ii fileutils 4.0l-6 GNU file management utilities.
ii findutils 4.1-37 utilities for finding files--find, xargs, an
ii gcc-doc 2.95.2-5 Documentation for the GNU compilers (gcc, go
ii glibc-doc 2.1.3-2 GNU C Library: Documentation
ii grep 2.4-2 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
ii gzip 1.2.4-33 The GNU compression utility.
ii info 4.0-2 Standalone GNU Info documentation browser
ii ispell 3.1.20-4 International Ispell (an interactive spellin
ii libbz2 0.9.5d-2 A high-quality block-sorting file compressor
ii libglib1.2-dev 1.2.6-1 Development files for GLib library
ii libgtk1.2-doc 1.2.6-2 Documentation for the GIMP Toolkit
ii libreadline4 4.1-0beta3db3 GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.2-5 The GNU stdc++ library (development files)
ii make 3.78.1-5 The GNU version of the "make" utility.
ii scm 5d2-2 A Scheme language interpreter.
ii sed 3.02-5 The GNU sed stream editor.
ii sgml-tools 1.0.9-10 SGML converters for the linuxdoc DTD only.
ii shellutils 2.0-4 The GNU shell programming utilities.
ii slib 2c7-1 Portable Scheme library.
ii tar 1.13.17-1 GNU tar
ii tetex-bin 1.0.6-3 teTeX binary files
ii texinfo 4.0-2 Documentation system for on-line information
ii textutils 2.0-2 The GNU text file processing utilities.
ii time 1.7-9 The GNU time command.
These ones are not:
g2:~# dpkg -l `dpkg -S /usr/info/\* | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq`
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 autoconf 2.13-20 automatic configure script builder
ii flex 2.5.4a-6 A fast lexical analyzer generator.
ii gawk 3.0.4-2 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing l
ii gdb 4.18.19990928- The GNU Debugger
ii m4 1.4-10 a macro processing language
ii sharutils 4.2.1-1 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode
ii util-linux 2.10f-2 Miscellaneous system utilities.
Should I raise a bug report for each of these?
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
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