Bug#538665: debian-policy: "Info documents" section is outdated

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:51:19AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > 4) While I have no technical objection to the 'START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' /
> > > 'END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' bits, currently at least one program generating
> > > info files (debiandoc2info) does not follow them. Packages using it to
> > > generate their info files would have a bug under this policy without an
> > > easy way to fix it, so maybe it is a bit premature.
> 
> Reading the comment I will assume that debiandoc2info is the only package
> that need to be fixed and waive this part. I will also try to get
> debiandoc2info fixed.

Hmm. debiandoc2info is just generating a texinfo file and call makeinfo
on it. makeinfo does not generate START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY/END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
by itself. How are we supposed to proceeed ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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