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



On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 08:51 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> 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...

Well, I guess hardcoding the desired page into info itself would be
fine, it's not like it's a patch that will go upstream so it doesn't
need to be particularly elegant. 

> 
> Regards, Frank
-- 
Sam Morris
http://robots.org.uk/

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