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Bug#170472: marked as done (info: top Info pages of different packages wildly differ)

Your message dated Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:29:53 +0200
with message-id <200809031029.53753.holger@layer-acht.org>
and subject line "How 'bout just filing wishlist bugs with patches?"
has caused the Debian Bug report #170472,
regarding info: top Info pages of different packages wildly differ
to be marked as done.

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Package: info
Version: 4.1-2
Severity: normal

Gentlemen, the top Info pages of different packages wildly differ:
e.g.
$ info m4
has a nice header "GNU m4"
but
$ info gawk
has a lower level header 'General introduction', while
$ info yorick
has a menu without a header, while
$ info emacs
says "the emacs editor", even better than "GNU m4" which doesn't
mention if it is an editor or a language, etc.

Therefore folks should make top Info nodes with proper headers.
How about a debian Info pages policy.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages info depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.2.5-6         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand

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Hi,

(this bug is about "top Info pages of different packages wildly differ".)

"How 'bout just filing wishlist bugs with patches?" sounds like a reasonable 
approach to me, thus closing this meta bugreport. Also _not_ reassigning to 
debian-policy, as there is no consensus to demand this and policy shall 
describe current best practice, which obviously doesnt exist here.


regards,
	Holger

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