From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Llu=C3=ADs?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: info handling dir.gz Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:39:43 +0100 Message-ID: <878vjkys1c.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> References: <87fwdsoepd.fsf@gnuvola.org> <87vcmoysvi.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330634421 23982 80.91.229.3 (1 Mar 2012 20:40:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 20:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 01 21:40:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S3CnN-000143-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:40:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37295 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S3CnM-0003uD-Bw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:40:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S3CnJ-0003u8-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:40:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S3CnH-00045C-ER for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:40:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:52932) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S3CnH-00044O-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Mar 2012 20:40:05 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (EHLO localhost) [84.88.53.92] by mail.gmx.net (mp028) with SMTP; 01 Mar 2012 21:40:05 +0100 X-Authenticated: #12333383 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+O3Gc3iL6OmMnRrfSdLg89MJZ4/RteTDgrBjUvnJ x3KDAZNgyRNQL4 In-Reply-To: <87vcmoysvi.fsf@ginnungagap.bsc.es> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Llu=C3=ADs?= =?utf-8?Q?=22's?= message of "Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:21:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.165.64.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:148866 Archived-At: Llu=C3=ADs writes: > Glenn Morris writes: >> Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: >>> + ;; As of 2011 or thereabouts, some weirdness in the >>> + ;; transition from Debian to GNU install-info results >>> + ;; in the directory file being gzipped. Sigh. >> It's probably a bug in some package you have installed. >> See eg http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D537835 >> I don't have a dir.gz on my Debian testing system. > I too have a /usr/share/info/dir.gz file. That probably explains why the = info > directory has been so empty lately :) > Reinstalling a random package removes /usr/share/info/dir and regenerates > /usr/share/info/dir.gz. > So, I'd say it's necessary to install this patch. Besides, support for gz= ipped > dir files in install-info has been there there since version 4.0 (sep 199= 9), so > this patch can only make the handling more complete. Sorry, I just looked into the bug you linked. The problem in my system seem= s to be cvs: $ dpkg -S /usr/share/info/dir.gz=20 cvs: /usr/share/info/dir.gz $ apt-cache policy cvs | grep \* *** 1:1.12.13-12+squeeze1 0 But install-info is still supposed to be able to handle gzipped dir files, = so... Just my 2 cents. Lluis --=20 "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth