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Bug#513187: info: README.Debian missing

Frank Küster wrote:

Julien Levi <deb-rb@jlevi.co.uk> wrote:

Package: info
Version: 4.11.dfsg.1-4
Severity: normal


README.Debian is missing from /usr/share/doc/info after installing info
binary package. It appears to be present in the source package (though I've only checked the diff on the package webpage) and is mentioned in the changelog.debian file, so I assume it should be there. 

The changelog mentions a README.Debian, but that's in the texinfo binary
package.
Along with the missing info help pages this made for a rather hostile new user experience! 

I suspect that that bugs #479071 and #484303 might never have been filed
were README.Debian present. 

Hm, you mean because the package name of the non-free documentation is
mentioned there? What about

apt-cache -n search texinfo

or similar commands?  Nowadays, having the documentation in non-free is
so common that we have so far not considered it necessary to add it in
each case. Should we?
In this case I think so. As a new user the knowledge that documentation is often split into non-free may not exist. Post install I didn't have non-free in my sources.list so an apt search was fruitless. Combine this with the fact that one of the very first things a new user will (should) try to do is learn how to use the documentation system, I believe putting a pointer to that documentation it in the doc directory is sensible. 

regards,

Julien
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