From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:34:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <875z3bq3p6.fsf@host.localdomain> <83fszkqacg.fsf@gnu.org> <837dkvrfwl.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9378"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: marmot-te@riseup.net, 46236@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 21 18:43:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lZFwU-0002H4-Ir for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Wed, 21 Apr 2021 09:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from 753933720722 named unknown by gmailapi.google.com with HTTPREST; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:34:43 -0500 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:204640 Archived-At: tags 46236 fixed close 46236 28.1 thanks Glenn Morris 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.