From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:55:42 +0200 Message-ID: <83ipn3mb41.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83y5w1m1wu.fsf@gnu.org> <87pqhc1cgr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87sjm7qxu5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320206210 14283 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2011 03:56:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 03:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9891@debbugs.gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 02 04:56:46 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RLRwT-0000WU-Tb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:56:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLRwT-0004nc-Ad for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:56:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53848) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLRwQ-0004nW-RW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:56:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLRwP-0004Ho-MH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:56:42 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLRwP-0004Hi-JT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:56:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RLRyf-0003Ar-Re for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:59:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:59:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 9891 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 9891-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B9891.132020628512136 (code B ref 9891); Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:59:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9891) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Nov 2011 03:58:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RLRxl-00039h-1i for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:58:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RLRxi-00039G-TF for 9891@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LU000000LDYUE00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 9891@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:55:40 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.70.69]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LU000007LKRN080@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:55:40 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87sjm7qxu5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:59:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:53430 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: dmoncayo@gmail.com, 9891@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:31:14 +0200 > > True, but this is what I see on GNU/Linux in "(dir) Top", at the top: > > * Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system. > > and in the "Texinfo documentation system" section: > > * Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system. > > The former is from the Emacs source tree, and the latter duplicate > is from /usr/share/info/. Emacs cannot fix that. You need to fix this by re-arranging and/or editing your DIR files. > I think it's more wrong when clicking on the link in the > "Texinfo documentation system" section visits the Info file > from the Emacs source tree instead of the Texinfo installation > in /usr/share/info/. Then make the entries unambiguous. > The problem with removing duplicates is its heuristics that is too > unpredictable and ad-hoc. Sometimes it leaves duplicates not removed, > and sometimes removes non-duplicates, e.g. I see that it removed the > second entry from these lines in `dir': > > * _exit: (libc)Termination Internals. > * _Exit: (libc)Termination Internals. Case sensitivity? Anyway, if the code in Info-dir-remove-duplicates is imperfect, we should improve it.