On 2013-07-10 21:32 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-07-11 08:02 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> tags 536506 + patch
>> thanks
>>
>> On 2009-07-11 02:06 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>
>>> tag 536506 + help
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 05:56:01PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>>> Package: glibc-doc-reference
>>>> Version: 2.9-1
>>>> Severity: normal
>>>>
>>>> Your package puts an entry for every libc function and macro into the
>>>> main info directory, using up more than 1700 lines. This has been
>>>> triggered by the transition to GNU's install-info; apparently the dpkg
>>>> implementation ignored secondary INFO-DIR-SECTION entries.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Could you have more details about what should be changed to fix that?
>>
>> There should not be a direntry for every function (upstream includes
>> them on purpose, but this is a big abuse, that is what indices are
>> for). The following minimal patch avoids this:
>>
>>--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> --- glibc-doc-reference-2.9.orig/manual/libc.texinfo
>> +++ glibc-doc-reference-2.9/manual/libc.texinfo
>> @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
>> @direntry
>> * Libc: (libc). C library.
>> @end direntry
>> -@include dir-add.texi
>>
>> @c This tells texinfo.tex to use the real section titles in xrefs in
>> @c place of the node name, when no section title is explicitly given.
>>--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Alas, this patch got lost in the 2.17-1 upload although it still
> applies. Perhaps a patch system would have avoided this problem?
There is now a patch system, but the patch for this bug (along with a
few others which may or may not still be relevant) has not been applied
when converting to the 3.0 (quilt) format. So I'm attaching it again.
Thanks for finally updating to a newer version! :)
Cheers,
Sven
--- a/manual/libc.texinfo
+++ b/manual/libc.texinfo
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
@direntry
* Libc: (libc). C library.
@end direntry
-@include dir-add.texi
@include pkgvers.texi
