Bug#156142: install-info: /usr/info/dir still exists?
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 02:28:32PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > > Version: 1.9.21
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > Woody
> > >
> > > In a newly installed debian system, there is a /usr/info/dir file, but
> > > there is not a /usr/share/info/dir. Policy does not say anything at
> > > all about /usr/info (section 13.2); it only mentions /usr/share/info.
> > >
> > > I think that a fixed install-info should be put into woody updates and
> > > on upgrade it should move the physical dir file into /usr/share/info,
> > > then make a compatibility symlink at /usr/info/dir.
> >
> > It's changed in sid. Why change woody? This is not a critical problem.
>
> I wonder if I have "sid" dpkg installed in a "woody" system then???
>
> In a fresh Woody install, is the dir in "/usr/info"? XEmacs 21.4.8 at
> least cannot find it there. The command line "info" does, however.
Ah, then XEmacs must have jumped the gun. Other readers I heard of were fine
with the old location...
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