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#76530
Remove or update dir file in the debbugs package
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Reported by: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:06:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
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Jonas Bernoulli via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:
Hi Jonas,
> The last commit changed the $direntry name of the manuals, but the
> tracked dir file was not updated. Because that file is being tracked,
> running install-info results in uncommitted changes.
Thanks for the heads-up. I've modified the dir file accordingly, pushed
to the ELPA git repo.
> I recommend you remove this file; I believe it is not commonly tracked.
(package-initialize) adds the directories, where packages are installed,
to Info-directory-list. Therefore, the dir file is taken into account.
> Alternatively regenerate it and check in the changes. I would have done
> that myself, but this resulted in more changes than what one would
> expect from looking just at 69f4dc14e8cbffbada422fe4e2d5640692a63425.
> It appears it makes a difference what version of install-info is used --
> another reason not to check in this file.
In the past, I've experienced problems when generating the dir
file. Therefore, I edit it manually all the time.
The change will appear with debbugs 0.44, to be released in a couple of
days (hopefully). If you want to check it just now, you could install
the recent debbugs 0.43.0.20250225.140711 from the
<https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/> archive.
> Cheers,
> Jonas
Best regards, Michael.
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