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From: | Vincent Lefevre |
Subject: | bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation |
Date: | Tue, 9 Sep 2014 02:32:53 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.23-6361-vl-r59709 (2014-07-25) |
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. -- Vincent Lefèvre <address@hidden> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
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