GNU bug report logs - #9891
24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:18:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.90

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 9891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:01:23 +0200

> That happens to work for you because by chance the "Texinfo
> documentation system" section only exists in one of the dir files, so
> the entries in that section are "unambiguously" bound to that dir file
> and hence to the directory where it was found.  But that's not the way
> `dir' files and section headers usually behave, so there's no code in
> info.el to try and special case such situations.

Now I understand that `dir' files are not necessarily located in the
same directory as Info files they are referring to.  Then absolute
filenames of Info files can't be deduced from the absolute filename
of the `dir' file.
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