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Bug#538665: debian-policy: "Info documents" section is outdated



Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:

>> 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 ?

The generated file should contain a section like:

@dircategory Individual utilities
@direntry
* example: (example).               An example info directory entry.
@end direntry

which will cause makeinfo to generate the directory entry information.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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