Bug#139569: patch: info patch doesn't lead to the info docs

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Hello. I reassigned this bug to dpkg (which contains Debian install-info).
Reply from Adam Heath, dpkg maintainer:

> Well, first off, dpkg's install-info will only process one
> START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY section per file.
>
> So, upon looking at the first section, $asread will contain:
> 'Diff: (diff).                 Comparing and merging files.\n'
>
> This is compared against:
>
>         if ($asread =~ m/(\*\s*[^:]+:\s*\(([^\)]+)\).*\. *.*\n){2,}/) {
>
> and
>
>         } elsif ($asread =~ m/^\*\s*([^:]+):(\s*\(([^\)]+)\)\.|:)\s*/) {
>
> This shows that it wants a line to start with *.  So, my question is, is not
> having the leading * valid?



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