On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 06:51:54PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
mstone> The debian install-info routine (IIRC) predates the
gnu install-info,
That wasn't my understanding, but I never actually researched it. I was
not aware of any Debian ii at the time that rms wrote GNU ii (I was
maintaining Texinfo by then -- 1996
I could be wrong, it was a very long time ago. :) The debian version
dates from '94, not sure if you're saying if the gnu one was written in
'96 or that's when you became involved.
and hasn't been updated to recognize certain
directives in newer info files.
The main directive (START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY) has been there basically since
the beginning of Info, not just install-info. I am pretty sure Debian
ii recognizes it, otherwise it wouldn't do anything useful at all.
I think the issue is that it only groks one START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY, and
isn't aware of what to do when there is more than one wrapped in
INFO-DIR-SECTION directives.
I am aware of the effort to unify the two, and that's definitely a good
thing. I'm also not going to count on all the stars aligning before the
next debian release, hence my search for a workaround. :-)
Mike Stone
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