Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> wrote:

> Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de> writes:
> 
> > Yes, if I were a debian user, I would do that.  If they have reason to
> > provide an alternative, incompatible program for installing info
> > files, they should use a different name for it.
> 
> Well, Debian was there first.  So actually, GNU should have used
> another name.
> 
> I guess the best we can hope for is for the two implementations to
> provide similar features, so that they can be used interchangeably.
> My current pet peeve with the Debian version is that it doesn't
> create dir files automatically.  Anyone care to ask them to add that
> feature?
> 
> It's difficult to convince the Debian maintainers that there is
> another info directory besides /usr/share/info, and that the whole
> world does not consist of Debian packages.

There's an old bug report here about compatibility here:

 http://bugs.debian.org/67237

Perhaps providing a patch would help things along.

Peter