Bug#139569: 139569: patch: info patch doesn't lead to the info docs
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:30:58 +0100 (CET)
> > From: Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
>
> > Reply from Adam Heath, dpkg maintainer:
> >
> > > Well, first off, dpkg's install-info will only process one
> > > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY section per file.
>
> Thanks for mentioning this porting problem. However, I see that
> several other packages have more than one START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY section
> per file. These include Automake, Autoconf, Gawk, Libtool, and Tar.
> So I guess a similar problem must occur with these other packages.
>
> GNU Texinfo 4.1 documents the fact that a Texinfo file can contain
> more than one set of @direntry/@dircategory commands. Hence it
> appears that multiple START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY sections per file are
> supported by GNU Texinfo install-info.
So, we need dpkg's install-info to support multiple entries. This most likely
won't happen for woody(we are near the end of a freeze).
Wichert, I want this to be fixed for 1.10. So, don't upload 1.10, until
either you or I(or some other kind soul) fixes this, k?
Maybe this might be time for a rewrite of that, or maybe using some other
install-info.
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