Bug#428339: Needs to mention where to find info's documentation

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk> wrote:

> Please mention somewhere prominent where to find info's documentation.
> There is currently no way for a newbie to work out how to install it.
> Currently you can't even press 'h' to get help from within the info
> viewer!

Thanks for reminding us, we totally lost that from our radar.

> Preferably:
>
>  * mention that info's documentation can be found in the textinfo-doc-nonfree
>    package
>  * have the info package Suggest texinfo-doc-nonfree
>  * ship a /usr/share/info.info file that explains where the documentation can 
>    be found (and have texinfo-doc-nonfree divert it out of the way).

I dislike diversions, I think the concept is flawed (although it might
work without problems in this particular case).  If anyone comes up with
an alternative, I'd be glad to use that...

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)