Re: "info foo" should be "info coreutils foo" in man page

[Micah Cowan]

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Reuben Thomas wrote:
> The man pages wisely direct the reader to the info documentation, but
> since coreutils's documentation is now in one big info file, "info cat",
> for example, doesn't work (it gives me the man page again on my system);
> you have to say "info coreutils cat".
> 
> This is Debian bug #411722:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/411722

That's actually an issue with Debian, not coreutils.

Debian has had its own version of install-info; part of the dpkg
package. This Debian install-info had failed to track with newer changes
in GNU's install-info.

GNU coreutils updates "dir" in such a way as to allow "info cat" to take
you to the appropriate section in the coreutils info manual. It only
works with GNU install-info, though.

The last I heard, Debian was planning to migrate to using GNU's
install-info, and remove the one from dpkg:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/04/msg00031.html

I do not know how far along this is.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/dpkg/+bug/38538 for
additional information.

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Micah J. Cowan
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