Bug#803887: Luc's answer

Thanks for the clarifications. I forward to Luc and here is the answer I got.

> As far as I understand the issue, info files are installed by
> "GNU install-info" aka ginstall-info.
>
> From hand experiments on an UBUNTU 14.04, "dropping relevant files
> into files under /usr/share/info" is not enough. One should
> also add an entry for ocaml into /usr/share/info/dir.
>
> This can be done from the command line as
> # sudo ginstall-info /usr/share/info/ocaml.info.gz /usr/share/info/dir
>
> There is no need to invoke ginstall-info on other info files, as
> "apt-get install ocaml-doc" apparently does. However, the only
> consequence seems to be warnings.
>
>
> > Can you please tell us how to test info files? So far, I've been unable to
> > get them
> > working through the "info" command-line utility. All what we do in the
> > package is to
> > drop relevant files under /usr/share/info. So, nothing seems specific to
> > Debian wrt
> > this issue.
> >
> > Also, there are a bunch of generated files, not only ocaml.info.body.gz.
> > The complete
> > list is:
> > - `ocaml.info.hocaml.info.kwd.hind.gz'
> > - `ocaml.info.hocaml.info.hind.gz'
> > - `ocaml.info.body.gz'
> > - `ocaml.info.haux.gz'
> >
> > Regards,
>
> So the conclusion is (?) avoid spurious warnings during the installation
> of the package ocaml-doc by applying ginstall-info to the file ocaml.info.gz
> and to this file only.
>
> As far as I understand, it seems a debian related issue, at least
> a packaging one, as described above.This is probably due to my very
> naive point of view, but I don't see so many difficulties.