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$Id: autoreply-debian,v 1.1 2003/08/12 19:20:36 joey Exp $
Your email is appended:
>Gentlemen, the Info dir on my system is not in tip top shape, and may
>not be also on yours. Try this simple test for duplicate entries:
>$ sort /usr/share/info/dir|uniq -d|fgrep \*
>* patch: (diff)Invoking patch. Apply a patch to a file.
>* sdiff: (diff)Invoking sdiff. Merge 2 files
>* testsuite: (autoconf)testsuite Invocation. Running an Autotest test
>So some packages are using install-info imperfectly.
>Maybe instead of relying on perfect use of install-info by each
>package, perhaps just remaking /usr/share/info/dir from whatever info
>files are on the system might be less error prone?
>$ sed -n 's/:.*//p' dir|sort|uniq -d
>* Gnus
>* Info
>* Message
>* patch
>* sdiff
>* testsuite
>* true
>* tty
>* uname
>* users
>* who
>* whoami
>* yes
>for me reveals that I need to do
>$ install-info --remove /usr/share/info/sh-utils.info
>as apparently that wasn't done when those tools were moved to a
>different package. Same with fileutils...
