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coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

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Message #17 received at 18428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: 18428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:48:01 -0600

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com> writes:
> > For instance, in the touch(1) man page:
> >
> >   The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
> >   the info and touch programs are properly installed at  your  site,  the
> >   command
> >
> >          info coreutils 'touch invocation'
> >
> >   should give you access to the complete manual.
> >
> > This is now incorrect (as of 8.23?), because it gives the page:
...
> > Note: Since the coreutils utility doesn't seem to exist in Debian, this
> > section could be removed, but this problem may reappear in the future.
> > So, it's better to use the capital letter C.

Just for the record the above was written by Vincent Lefevre in his
original bug report and was not written by me.  In the above I was
simply forwarding the report.

Bob

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