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bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:27:29 +0100 |
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On 09/08/2014 08:30 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 09/08/2014 07:12 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Bob Proulx <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> For instance, in the touch(1) man page:
>>>
>>> The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
>>> the info and touch programs are properly installed at your site, the
>>> command
>>>
>>> info coreutils 'touch invocation'
>>>
>>> should give you access to the complete manual.
>>>
>>> This is now incorrect (as of 8.23?), because it gives the page:
>>
>> "info touch" still works, which is equivalent to "info '(coreutils)touch
>> invocation'".
>>
>>> Note: Since the coreutils utility doesn't seem to exist in Debian, this
>>> section could be removed, but this problem may reappear in the future.
>>> So, it's better to use the capital letter C.
>>
>> Having info dir entries only differing in case seems like a bad idea.
>
> I agree.
>
> We could rename the node, but the bracketed form works well
> without the need for any extra quoting. I.E. this is unambiguous:
>
> info '(coreutils) stat invocation'
>
> The following simple patch implements that.
Another advantage of this more canonical form
is that the pinfo curses info viewer can parse it.
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 <=
- 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, 2014/09/08
- 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