From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Documentation of reduce in guile manual Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:23:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87sjtl3zdy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87vcyjhe79.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wrix456q.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302776611 13875 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2011 10:23:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 14 12:23:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@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 1QAJhu-0003r0-TT for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:23:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50844 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAJhu-00036P-6b for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:23:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60867) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAJhs-00036K-1i for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAJhq-0007B7-Uh for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:52813) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAJhq-0007B3-Rf for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:23:22 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37148 helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QAJhq-0006K6-FT; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:23:22 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BFF961FD50; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:23:21 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:37:47 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:5487 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > On Thu 14 Apr 2011 10:18, David Kastrup writes: > >> Andy Wingo writes: >> >>> On Tue 12 Apr 2011 14:00, David Kastrup writes: >>> >>>> In the guile manual (listed as >>>> ii guile-1.6-doc >>> >>> For words that aren't ten years old, try Guile 2.0, which fixes this >>> issue, among others. >> >> It is the version of guile with the API used in the very latest versions >> of Debian and Ubuntu (to be released), so the "10 year old words" will >> stick around for at least a year. > > I believe they also package guile-1.8-doc, which are merely 5 year old > words. Well, that explains some. It would appear that a) docs are not installed by default, one has to install them manually b) there is no metapackage guile-doc, so one has to specify versions explicitly c) once one installs guile-1.6-doc, dpkg is happy to keep it around even when one upgrades guile to 1.8 d) deinstalling guile-1.6-doc after installing guile-1.8-doc*, one needs to look for the file "guile-1.8" as info. guile.info no longer is there, even after running dpkg-reconfigure on the guile-1.8-doc* packages. e) the documentation for reduce indeed is quite better. -- David Kastrup