Trying boot floppies 2.2.16
I have done a clean install, and also I have been using apt-get
dist-upgrade to potato for many months now (which was initially
installed as slink).
All in all, great progress, now every kernel driver module has a
proper description (even if the description is `no description
available').
I have found two problems that I think should be dealt with,
1. Elvis_tiny cannot display lines with greater than 79
characters, eg, the install generated `/etc/fstab'. As much as I
hate `ae', I was able to edit `/etc/fstab' with `ae'. At the very
least, a warning about elvis_tiny should be put in the
install-notes.
2. Info is broken. There are various problems. Under Emacs,
the C-h C-f `Info-goto-emacs-command-node' command is broken, I
have already filed bug #67482 for this problem. Also, all of the
`dir' files are not merged into the main info display under emacs,
otherwise, info under emacs seems to be working ok on both the
clean install system and dist-upgrade-d system.
Using stand-alone info is another matter. Unlike emacs, all of
the `dir' files _are_ merged into the main menu, and many of these
menu items do not work, eg, viper, emacs, emacs-e20, message, etc,
(this is chroot-ed to my `clean install' partition).
What's really weird is that using my dist-upgrade-d potato system,
is that different info nodes work or fail compared to the clean
install system using stand-alone info. Perhaps this is somehow
related to the merging of the `dir' files (from /usr/info and
/usr/share/info) that stand alone info does, but which emacs info
does not do.
Since there have been many complaints and problems with
stand-alone info in the past, I think that just mentioning this
problem in the install-notes is not sufficient. Instead, this
problem with stand-alone info should be fixed.
HTH,
--
Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-testing-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: