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Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?

From	Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Online copies of textinfo content available?
Date	2018-10-29 21:30 +0100
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:20:30AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>What Brian asked for is an example of a man page that ends with
>"The full documentation for foo is maintained as a Texinfo manual"
>but the   info foo   output has no more information than   man foo.

This used to be more of a problem because dpkg provided an install-info 
that couldn't parse the info header used in newer versions of texinfo.  
This was obviously a bug but hung around for a while before it was 
solved. E.g., in etch the ls man page would point people to the ls info 
page, but since install-info didn't parse the index properly, "info ls" 
couldn't find any ls info and fell back to displaying the ls man page. 
It was possible to run "info coreutils ls", and the coreutils man page 
tried that later on. This failed in other cases, which led to the 
current (awkward) formulation in which the ls man page references "info 
'(coreutils) ls invocation'". Eventually, dpkg's install-info was 
replaced by the actual texinfo install-info, so a simple "info ls" also 
works again. 

TL;DR: man pages referencing info pages which are just man pages 
shouldn't be a thing anymore.

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Online copies of textinfo content available? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-10-26 16:50 +0200
  Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-26 17:10 +0200
  Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-26 17:10 +0200
  Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-26 17:50 +0200
  Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-10-26 19:30 +0200
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-26 20:20 +0200
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 10:20 +0200
        Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-29 17:00 +0100
          Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-11-02 05:00 +0100
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-10-29 07:30 +0100
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-26 20:20 +0200
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-26 20:30 +0200
        Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-26 22:00 +0200
          Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 00:50 +0200
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-10-29 07:30 +0100
  Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2018-10-26 22:20 +0200
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-10-26 22:20 +0200
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2018-10-26 22:30 +0200
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-10-26 22:30 +0200
    Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-26 23:50 +0200
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-27 00:10 +0200
        Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-27 00:20 +0200
          Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-27 03:40 +0200
            Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-27 11:10 +0200
              Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-10-27 15:30 +0200
        Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-10-27 01:10 +0200
      Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-10-29 07:40 +0100
        Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-29 16:30 +0100
          Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-29 21:20 +0100
          Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-29 21:30 +0100
            Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-10-29 22:00 +0100
              Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-10-29 22:20 +0100
            Re: Online copies of textinfo content available? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-10-30 09:40 +0100

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