On Mon 29 Oct 2018 at 16:27:13 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:20:30AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > What Brian asked for is an example of a man page that ends with > > "The full documentation for foo is maintained as a Texinfo manual" > > but the info foo output has no more information than man foo. > > This used to be more of a problem because dpkg provided an install-info that > couldn't parse the info header used in newer versions of texinfo. This was > obviously a bug but hung around for a while before it was solved. E.g., in > etch the ls man page would point people to the ls info page, but since > install-info didn't parse the index properly, "info ls" couldn't find any ls > info and fell back to displaying the ls man page. It was possible to run > "info coreutils ls", and the coreutils man page tried that later on. This > failed in other cases, which led to the current (awkward) formulation in > which the ls man page references "info '(coreutils) ls invocation'". > Eventually, dpkg's install-info was replaced by the actual texinfo > install-info, so a simple "info ls" also works again. > > TL;DR: man pages referencing info pages which are just man pages shouldn't > be a thing anymore.
Does 'info make' giving a man page fit your explanation? -- Brian.