Debian bug report logs - #1097
info-3.6-1 and manpages ...

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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: Re: Bug#1097: info-3.6-1 and manpages ...

Peter Tobias writes in Debian GNU/Linux bug#1097 against Texinfo 3.6:
> "M-x man" does only work for catpages. If the catpage for the manual
> page does not exist the info command will create the catpage but
> won't show it. If you try it again it'll work because the catpage exist.
> BTW: If the PAGER environment variable is used, the info command
> sometimes prints something like "read error  (press RETURN)" and it
> doesn't work either (but creates a catpage).

I've verified this, using version 2.3.7-3 of Debian's man package (the
source code for which is available at
ftp.debian.org:/debian/source/text/man-2.3.7-3.tar.gz

> [...]
> PS: It seems that the FSF also forgot to update info-stnd.info.gz file.

This appears to be true.

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Ian.

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Package: info
Version: 3.6-1

"M-x man" does only work for catpages. If the catpage for the manual
page does not exist the info command will create the catpage but
won't show it. If you try it again it'll work because the catpage exist.
BTW: If the PAGER environment variable is used, the info command
sometimes prints something like "read error  (press RETURN)" and it
doesn't work either (but creates a catpage).


BTW: "info --version" says "GNU Info, Version 2.14" but the package
uses the version number 3.6 (from texinfo). Since "info" is the only
program in the package it should probably have the version number
2.14 and not 3.6.


Peter

PS: It seems that the FSF also forgot to update info-stnd.info.gz file.

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