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Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable

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On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, davidson wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, Nishan Singh Mann wrote:
>
>> Hello, on Ubuntu 17.10 which to my knowledge is based on Debian
>> unstable, installing Emacs via $sudo apt install emacs and then
>> trying to view the Emacs manual using C-h r fails with error "Info
>> file emacs does not exist" The same set of instructions on Ubuntu
>> 16.04 works and one ends up with a local copy of the GNU emacs
>> manual. Did the documentation get delegated to another package or
>> am I missing something?  Thanks, Nishan

Regarding the differences you experience between Ubuntu 16.04 and
Ubuntu 17.10, it appears that the emacs24-common-non-dfsg package got
moved from the "main" component to the "universe" component, as can be
seen by examining the following files:

Ubuntu 16.04, packages in "main"
  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

Ubuntu 17.10, packages in "universe"
  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/artful/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz

[..]
> FOR UBUNTU
>
> As I recall, Ubuntu names its components somewhat differently; I
> don't believe it has a component named "non-free". So some
> translation is required to apply the workflow above to an Ubuntu
> system. It is my understanding that the Ubuntu's
> emacs24-common-non-dfsg package is in the "universe" component.

...as of Ubuntu 17.10, that is.

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Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable Nishan Singh Mann <nishan.singh.mann@gmail.com> - 2018-01-22 05:40 +0100
  Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable Davor Balder <dbalder@ozemail.com.au> - 2018-01-22 06:20 +0100
  Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2018-01-22 06:40 +0100
  Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-22 16:10 +0100
    Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2018-01-22 16:40 +0100
      Re: Emacs info documentation missing in Debian Unstable Nishan Singh Mann <nishan.singh.mann@gmail.com> - 2018-01-23 04:30 +0100

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