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bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils docu
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:51:23 +0100 |
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On 09/09/2014 01:32 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2014-09-08 18:10:35 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Note that IIRC originally the pointer was:
>>
>> info touch
>>
>> But that failed due to shortcomings in variously implemented
>> install-info commands that I don't remember now.
>
> There were actually several (Debian-specific?) problems with this form.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483554
>
>> Therefore this was changed to "info -f coreutils touch" IIRC and
>> then later mutated again to "info coreutils 'touch invocation'" to
>> get more canonical.
>>
>> But I think in recent years the install-info problems have been fixed.
>
> If this is the following bug:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139569
>
> it was fixed in Debian in September 2009. The simple form now seems
> to be OK.
There is also ambiguity in the shorter form:
info stat
info '(coreutils) stat invocation'
Likewise for chmod, chown, kill, link, mkdir, ...
So we'll stick with the longer form
(which is likely to be cut n pasted in any case)
thanks,
Pádraig.
- bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Bob Proulx, 2014/09/08
- bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Andreas Schwab, 2014/09/08
- bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Pádraig Brady, 2014/09/08
- bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Pádraig Brady, 2014/09/08
- bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Bob Proulx, 2014/09/08
- bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/09/08
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation,
Pádraig Brady <=
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Paul Eggert, 2014/09/08
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Pádraig Brady, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Michael Stone, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Pádraig Brady, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Michael Stone, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Assaf Gordon, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Pádraig Brady, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Bob Proulx, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Pádraig Brady, 2014/09/10