From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: marmot-te@riseup.net, 46236@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:34:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=32CvLTf4UYjRcUgp1rqf9kZuD+VXFEoOZRg8gROzr5g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db8s5b4pre.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
tags 46236 fixed
close 46236 28.1
thanks
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> IMO it's obviously Debian's responsibility to fix this.
> If they want to remove an info file, they should replace it with a stub that
> says that they did so, and explains how to get the original.
> It would seem simple to do so.
> But given that this has not happened in 15 years, it seems unlikely to.
>
> See eg https://bugs.debian.org/961593
> (But I'm sure this must have been discussed before that.)
>
> (This problem is of course not specific to Emacs info files.)
That's true.
So I installed the improved error message suggested by Eli, and I'm
closing this bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-21 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-01 14:10 bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation marmot-te
2021-02-03 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-21 3:20 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-21 12:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-21 12:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 15:32 ` Glenn Morris
2021-04-21 16:34 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-04-21 12:32 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-21 13:47 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 13:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-21 13:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-21 14:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-03-06 14:25 ` Tomas Nordin
2021-03-07 6:11 ` Richard Stallman
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