On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 09:25:53PM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > David Niklas wrote: > > > I tried using apt to search for gcc's doc package to no avail. Of course, > > I can bring up a very brief info page, but I'm talking the "full length > > everything explained" version. > > > > Where is the gcc info page? > > If you want the Info page for gcc-14 (the default), you can get it by > installing gcc-doc, which depends on gcc-14-doc (which has the actual > Info page). But I think you need to have both contrib (for gcc-doc) and > non-free (for gcc-14-doc) enabled.
Exactly. gcc-*-doc is in the non-free section, because there is some mismatch between Gnu's default documentation license (GFDL) and Debian's guidelines (the Debian Free Software Guidelines, DFSG). This is unfortunate, but currently difficult to change, alas. For some background: https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq#GFDL https://people.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml Cheers -- t
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