Re: GNU info documents ? How?
Paul E Condon <pec@mesanetworks.net> writes:
> I know that there is some Gnu nonsense about the license on
> info documents the keeps them from bein part of debian main,
> but how can I gain access to them as an individual user?
>
> Is there a document giving information about how to deal
> with this problem for the ordinary user? What URL?
In general, packages that are effected by this are broken into two, with
the non-free bits given a name like *-non-dfsg (i.e.,
emacs21-common-non-dfsg) or *-nonfree (i.e., texinfo-nonfree).
Sometimes, though, the nonfree stuff doesn't get a special name (i.e.,
tar-doc).
There's no guarantee that this will all be done at the same time.
Sometimes the nonfree stuff gets removed from the main package some
weeks or months before a corresponding non-free package is prepared. So
there is no fixed rule for how to deal with this. When you find an info
file is missing, you'll have to do a bit of searching in the nonfree doc
repositories to sort out what you need, and if it's available. You can
always add new info files manually in /usr/local/share/info/ if you want
to avoid the whole issue.
Cheers,
Tyler
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