GNU bug report logs - #18428
coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 20:12:40 +0200

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:

"info touch" still works, which is equivalent to "info '(coreutils)touch
invocation'".

> 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.

Having info dir entries only differing in case seems like a bad idea.

Andreas.

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