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Re: GNU info documents ? How?



On 2009-01-15 23:50 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> On Thursday 2009 January 15 16:27:17 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>Not all of the GFDLed docs have invariant
>>sections, most of them can be found in non-free (not contrib).
>>
>>GNU grep is missing
>>its info manual, although I've contacted upstream and they have agreed
>>to remove the invariant section for the next release (but that won't
>>probably happen soon).
>
> I thought "with invariant sections" meant "safe for non-free" and "without 
> invariant sections" meant "safe for main"?

Some Debian maintainers don't bother to package things for non-free.
Thus bash, grep, mailutils, w3-el-e21 etc. don't have info documents
that you can download from Debian mirrors.

Sven


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