Your bypass did not work at all, but thanks to the debbug entry you linked, I got two working variants now:
(fully compatible, anywhere) $ info '(coreutils) cat invocation' (note: might not work everywhere) $ info Coreutils 'cat invocation' -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1384416 Title: coreutils 'info command' broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/coreutils/+bug/1384416/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs