Your message dated Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:55:13 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#367251: texinfo-doc-nonfree: misuse of install-info
has caused the Debian Bug report #367251,
regarding [INSTALL-INFO] Info docs end up in multiple equally named sections
to be marked as done.
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Package: gdb
Version: 6.4-1
Severity: minor
Info documentation for gdb ends up in (multiple) separate sections called
Development,
even though the dir file already contains a section called that with all the
other
GNU documentation. Like this:
Miscellaneous:
* Tasks: (tasks). The GNU Task List.
Development
* CVS: (cvs). Concurrent Versions System
* CVS client/server: (cvsclient). Describes the client/server protocol
used by CVS.
* Autoconf: (autoconf). Create source code configuration
scripts.
* autoscan: (autoconf)autoscan Invocation.
Semi-automatic `configure.ac' writing
* Gdbm: (gdbm). The GNU Database Routines.
* ifnames: (autoconf)ifnames Invocation.
Listing conditionals in source.
* autoconf: (autoconf)autoconf Invocation.
How to create configuration scripts
* autoreconf: (autoconf)autoreconf Invocation.
Remaking multiple `configure' scripts
* autoheader: (autoconf)autoheader Invocation.
How to create configuration templates
* autom4te: (autoconf)autom4te Invocation.
The Autoconf executables backbone
* configure: (autoconf)configure Invocation.
Configuring a package.
* autoupdate: (autoconf)autoupdate Invocation.
Automatic update of `configure.ac'
* config.status: (autoconf)config. status Invocation. Recreating
configurations.
* Make: (make). The GNU make utility.
* testsuite: (autoconf)testsuite Invocation.
Running an Autotest test suite.
* automake-1.7: (automake-1.7). Making Makefile.in's
* cpp-4.0: (cpp-4.0). The GNU C preprocessor.
* cppinternals-4.0: (cppinternals-4.0). Cpplib internals.
* Flex: (flex). A fast scanner generator
* gcc-4.0: (gcc-4.0). The GNU Compiler Collection.
* gccint-4.0: (gccint-4.0). Internals of the GNU Compiler
GNU Utilities
* pinentry: (pinentry). Ask securely for a passphrase or PIN.
Information:
* Debian menu: (menu). The Debian menu system
Development
* Gdb: (gdb). The GNU debugger.
Development
* Gdb-Internals: (gdbint). The GNU debugger's internals.
Development
* Stabs: (stabs). The "stabs" debugging information
format.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-8custom1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages gdb depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-1.1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline5 5.1-7 GNU readline and history libraries
gdb recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 1.15.4
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Info documentation about info and texinfo ends up in multiple equally
> named sections. My dir file looks like this:
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
> I'm pleased that 337215 has been fixed, it's also the fix for 395954.
So apparently this was the result of a dh_installinfo breakage.
Nowadays, dpkg's install-info is gone and the dir file is regenerated
from scratch every time (with GNU's install-info). Thus, such problems
can't last... closing it given that the current situation is sane.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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