From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:07:54 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87obwuvne3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <83y5w1m1wu.fsf@gnu.org> <87pqhc1cgr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87sjm7qxu5.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <83ipn3mb41.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320229255 18868 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2011 10:20:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 9891@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 02 11:20:50 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 1RLXw8-0002Ig-Au for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:20:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55890 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLXw7-0005x2-Ru for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:20:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59077) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLXw4-0005wc-Ls for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:20:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLXw3-0002uy-PK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:20:44 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43281) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RLXw3-0002uu-NV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:20:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RLXyK-0003Iz-4Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:23:05 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:23:03 +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=B9891.132022935412664 (code B ref 9891); Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:23:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 9891) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Nov 2011 10:22:34 +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 1RLXxp-0003I8-L7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: from smarty.dreamhost.com ([208.113.175.8]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RLXxm-0003Hx-MG for 9891@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:22:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhostps.com (ps18281.dreamhost.com [69.163.218.105]) by smarty.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DC16E80D3; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 03:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775E6451C5C5; Wed, 2 Nov 2011 03:20:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83ipn3mb41.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:55:42 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:23:04 -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:53439 Archived-At: >> 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 don't want to edit installed DIR files, and on systems where you have no root privileges you can't edit them anyway. >> 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. Yes, it seems this case insensitivity is intentional in `Info-dir-remove-duplicates'.