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and subject line Re: bash bug #427804 - missing info documentation
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regarding bash: missing info documentation
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Package: bash
Version: 3.1dfsg-8
Severity: normal
The info documentation for bash was removed from bash-doc as a
result of bug #357260, and that bug was then closed. However, no
non-free bash-info package was ever created.
The bash info documentation is important and useful. I think it needs
to be restored to Debian as a non-free package.
Thanks,
Andrew.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 4.0.0 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii debianutils 2.19 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
bash recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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affects 466120 + bash bash-doc
quit
Hi,
A. Costa wrote:
> Please ditto, "me too", nag nag, 4th aniversary, etc.
Perhaps you can contact Fernando at [email protected] to help with
packaging Chet's documentation (by giving feedback, testing, making
improvements, whatever seems to be useful). I'm closing this bug with
this message since I can't see how a change to the bash package itself
could fix it (though see also [1]).
> Of course the bigger problem is not just 'bash'. Someday there needs
> to be a general solution for problems with unavailable "nonfree" 'info'
> files. For example, many Debian 'man' pages recommend 'info' files,
> that in Debian haven't been available in (four) years.
Please do keep filing bugs for specific problems you run into. Aside
from (e.g.) manpages-dev advertising functions that require libc-dev
to be usable in programs (which I don't consider a bug), I don't know
of any examples like that.
> We might start by
> never documenting a file that's not there.
A common practice is to ship manpages in the same package that
provides each command; it seems to work well. :) Improvements always
welcome.
Thanks for your interest, and hope that helps.
Regards,
Jonathan
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/481966
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