Gentlemen, the Info dir on my system is not in tip top shape, and may not be also on yours. Try this simple test for duplicate entries: $ sort /usr/share/info/dir|uniq -d|fgrep \* * patch: (diff)Invoking patch. Apply a patch to a file. * sdiff: (diff)Invoking sdiff. Merge 2 files * testsuite: (autoconf)testsuite Invocation. Running an Autotest test
So some packages are using install-info imperfectly. Maybe instead of relying on perfect use of install-info by each package, perhaps just remaking /usr/share/info/dir from whatever info files are on the system might be less error prone? $ sed -n 's/:.*//p' dir|sort|uniq -d * Gnus * Info * Message * patch * sdiff * testsuite * true * tty * uname * users * who * whoami * yes for me reveals that I need to do $ install-info --remove /usr/share/info/sh-utils.info as apparently that wasn't done when those tools were moved to a different package. Same with fileutils...
