On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:42:34AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Daniel Macks wrote:
> []
> > The messages are quite literal in what is missing: you need to add a
> > START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY block or a "This file documents" paragraph to
> > gengetopt.info. 
> 
> Should we really need to hack GNU-supplied GNU info files?
> Something isn't right there. I haven't followed the history of that 
> "This file documents" thing to see whether GNU changed their mind about 
> it and write it now as "This manual is for". The gengetopt sources did 
> have this change of mind somewhere between 2.15 and 2.17 in any case. 
> Does anyone know about this change?
> 
> In any case, the /sw/sbin/install-info perl script explicitly searches 
> for "[Tt]his file documents". If newer GNU info files are now adopting 
> "This manual is for", it would be easier to change install-info in dpkg 
> to allow this, too, than to change all info files.

Yeah. I'm not sure if there are other changes to that line that we'd
also need to figure out how to parse. Note that debian's install-info
isn't really the same as the GNU texinfo one--yay for standards:(

dan

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