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Bug#1021828: debian-policy.info: mysterious anchors in cross-references



Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.6.1.1

I've stumbled upon this:

   $ info debian-policy | grep -Eoi '[*]note.*:[^.]+'
   ...
   *note Debian source control files – .dsc: 61
   *note Syntax of control files: 8f
   *note List of fields: a9

This looks very weird. What's "61", "8f", "a9"?

OK, I dug into texinfo documentation¹ and learned that these are anchor names. If they are really necessary, I'd expect them to be at least somewhat human readable.


¹ info texinfo 'Info Format Cross Reference'
or https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Info-Format-Cross-Reference.html


-- System Information:
Architecture: i386

Versions of packages debian-policy recommends:
ii  libjs-sphinxdoc  4.5.0-4

--
Jakub Wilk


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