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  • Bug#872900: debian-policy: Very generic info file name

    From Guillem Jover@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 22 12:40:01 2017
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    Package: debian-policy
    Version: 4.1.0.0

    Hi!

    While I'm not a very big fan of info files (even when using pinfo),
    it seems for now it's the only way to get section numbers w/o having
    to use a browser. :/ So while using it I noticed that it has been
    installed with an extremely generic name, for something that is a
    global resource. I think it should be renamed to debian-policy.

    Thanks,
    Guillem

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  • From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to Guillem Jover on Tue Aug 22 20:00:02 2017
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:

    Package: debian-policy
    Version: 4.1.0.0

    While I'm not a very big fan of info files (even when using pinfo),
    it seems for now it's the only way to get section numbers w/o having
    to use a browser. :/

    w3m works very well, FWIW. (And yeah, the lack of section numbers in the
    text output is definitely a regression that we'll need to fix.)

    So while using it I noticed that it has been installed with an extremely generic name, for something that is a global resource. I think it should
    be renamed to debian-policy.

    Ack, yes, this is my fault. Will fix.

    --
    Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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  • From Sean Whitton@21:1/5 to Russ Allbery on Tue Aug 22 20:40:03 2017
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    Hello,

    On Tue, Aug 22 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:

    So while using it I noticed that it has been installed with an
    extremely generic name, for something that is a global resource. I
    think it should be renamed to debian-policy.

    Ack, yes, this is my fault. Will fix.

    Whoever fixes this will need to rename all the images to have a
    debian-policy- prefix. This is a convention when you install images
    into /usr/share/info.

    --
    Sean Whitton

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  • From Guillem Jover@21:1/5 to Russ Allbery on Tue Aug 22 23:00:01 2017
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    Hi!

    On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 09:44:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
    Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
    Package: debian-policy
    Version: 4.1.0.0

    While I'm not a very big fan of info files (even when using pinfo),
    it seems for now it's the only way to get section numbers w/o having
    to use a browser. :/

    w3m works very well, FWIW.

    Right, although when using a browser on a terminal I tend to use
    elinks/links, it's just that this is less convenient. :)

    In any, case I've just updated my deb-policy script to handle this
    for me :) for now:

    ,--- ~/bin/deb-policy ---
    #!/bin/sh
    base=/usr/share/doc/debian-policy
    if [ "$1" = '--upgrade' ]; then
    exec pager $base/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz
    elif [ -e $base/policy.html/objects.inv ]; then
    links -dump $base/policy.html/index.html | exec pager
    else
    exec pager $base/policy.txt.gz
    fi
    `---

    Thanks,
    Guillem

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  • From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to Guillem Jover on Wed Aug 23 08:30:01 2017
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist

    Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:

    While I'm not a very big fan of info files (even when using pinfo),
    it seems for now it's the only way to get section numbers w/o having
    to use a browser. :/ So while using it I noticed that it has been
    installed with an extremely generic name, for something that is a
    global resource. I think it should be renamed to debian-policy.

    Fixed in Git. Thanks!

    --
    Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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