On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:52:59AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes: > > >> Reading the comment I will assume that debiandoc2info is the only package > >> that need to be fixed and waive this part. I will also try to get > >> debiandoc2info fixed. > > > Hmm. debiandoc2info is just generating a texinfo file and call makeinfo > > on it. makeinfo does not generate > > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY/END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY by itself. How are we supposed > > to proceeed ? > > The generated file should contain a section like: > > @dircategory Individual utilities > @direntry > * example: (example). An example info directory entry. > @end direntry > > which will cause makeinfo to generate the directory entry information.
Probably this information should be included as a footnote in policy. At this stage, it is still unclear to me what is the expected/correct process to get the START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY/END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY included in an info file. The data that used to be passed to install-menu now need to be provided higher in the chain. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
