Re: point to "info coreutils cmd" instead of "info cmd" in manpage

[Jim Meyering]

Tomas Pospisek <address@hidden> wrote:

> I don't know wheter other systems do some symlinks tricks to achieve the
> expected behaveour, but at least on Debian issuing:
>
>       info mv
>
> will give me the _manpage_ of mv, since there is no texinfo mv manual.
> The following however does work.
>
>       info coreutils mv

I think what you're seeing is a problem with Debian's install-info.
I saw a Debian bug report about this recently.

We can't do that in general, because some
(like `info coreutils pr') don't work.  That takes you
to the `printing text' node.
There have been numerous messages on this latter.