Subject: bug#34023: Support double colons in Info index entries

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:32:35 -0500

Gavin Smith wrote:

> Even if Info mode and the standalone Info browser are changed to 
> support colons in index entries, people running older versions of these 
> won't be able to read them.

Sure. However, if Texinfo is intending to support them from version X,
IMO it should document that.

> However, texi2any does output the colon in the index entry without
> complaint.

Personally I think this is a bug, but Texinfo's previous maintainer
disagreed about what warnings were appropriate.

http://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-texinfo/2014-02/msg00029.html