Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation

[Michael Stone]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:51:54PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>    mstone> The debian install-info routine (IIRC) predates the 
>    gnu install-info, 
>
> That wasn't my understanding, but I never actually researched it.  I was
> not aware of any Debian ii at the time that rms wrote GNU ii (I was
> maintaining Texinfo by then -- 1996

I could be wrong, it was a very long time ago. :) The debian version 
dates from '94, not sure if you're saying if the gnu one was written in 
'96 or that's when you became involved.

>    and hasn't been updated to recognize certain 
>    directives in newer info files. 
>
> The main directive (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY) has been there basically since
> the beginning of Info, not just install-info.  I am pretty sure Debian
> ii recognizes it, otherwise it wouldn't do anything useful at all.

I think the issue is that it only groks one START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY, and 
isn't aware of what to do when there is more than one wrapped in 
INFO-DIR-SECTION directives.

I am aware of the effort to unify the two, and that's definitely a good 
thing. I'm also not going to count on all the stars aligning before the 
next debian release, hence my search for a workaround. :-)

Mike Stone