Bug#43757: My emacs can't find some info files

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Ian Jackson wrote:

> Package: debian-policy, emacs19, glibc-doc
> Version: not known, 19.34-21, 2.1.1-12
> 
> I have:
> 
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name            Version        Description
> +++-===============-==============-============================================
> ii  emacs19         19.34-21       The GNU Emacs editor.
> ii  emacs19-el      19.34-21       GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files.
> ii  emacsen-common  1.4.8          Common facilities for all emacsen.
> ii  glibc-doc       2.1.1-12       GNU C Library: Documentation
> 
> When I look at /usr/info/dir it has an entry for libc.  However,
> libc.info is in /usr/share/info, not /usr/info, and Emacs can't find
> it.

I think this is a bug in the emacs built-in info reader.
The ordinary info program works fine.

> I think this is a bug in policy, which encouraged people to change the
> locations of info files without thinking about transition.

I did actually think about transition of the info files. Please read my
post about the info transition some months ago.

I would suggest the emacs maintainer to reassign this bug to emacs19.

Thanks.

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