Bug#536506: glibc-doc-reference: clutters up main info directory
On 2009-07-11 08:02 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> tags 536506 + patch
> thanks
>
> On 2009-07-11 02:06 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>
>> tag 536506 + help
>> thanks
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 05:56:01PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>> Package: glibc-doc-reference
>>> Version: 2.9-1
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Your package puts an entry for every libc function and macro into the
>>> main info directory, using up more than 1700 lines. This has been
>>> triggered by the transition to GNU's install-info; apparently the dpkg
>>> implementation ignored secondary INFO-DIR-SECTION entries.
>>>
>>
>> Could you have more details about what should be changed to fix that?
>
> There should not be a direntry for every function (upstream includes
> them on purpose, but this is a big abuse, that is what indices are
> for). The following minimal patch avoids this:
>
>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> --- glibc-doc-reference-2.9.orig/manual/libc.texinfo
> +++ glibc-doc-reference-2.9/manual/libc.texinfo
> @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
> @direntry
> * Libc: (libc). C library.
> @end direntry
> -@include dir-add.texi
>
> @c This tells texinfo.tex to use the real section titles in xrefs in
> @c place of the node name, when no section title is explicitly given.
>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Alas, this patch got lost in the 2.17-1 upload although it still
applies. Perhaps a patch system would have avoided this problem?
Cheers,
Sven
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