Package: coreutils
Version: 5.96-3
Severity: important
The man page for install(1) tells me that:
The full documentation for install is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and install programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info install
should give you access to the complete manual.
Inconveniently, when I type the command specified, info falls back on
man pages and shows me the same man page. Thankfully I have working
recursion-breaking heuristics to avoid infinite loops. When I look
for install in emacs' C-h i buffer, it fails likewise.
I inferred that install's info pages were missing, hence that I needed
to find out its package name and add -doc. I asked type install and
dkpk -S /usr/bin/install so found that install is provided by
coreutils. More users shall be able to get more out of Debian when
having to infer and ask as above gets less common. I believe I've had
similar trouble with other programs provided by the coreutils module.
There being no coreutils-doc package (at least, not in etch, whose
version of coreutils I'm using), I tried asking info about coreutils
(both in emacs and in info) and discover that this works and even
provides an entry for install. I can thus amend the above command to
info coreutils install
to get all the way there in one command. I recommend that the man
page of install be amended to supply this command-line, which works,
rather than the one it presently supplies - which doesn't work. I
believe that there are other man pages for commands in coreutils to
which the same problem applies: presumably the same solution is apt to
work for these, too.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.39-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.30-1 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
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