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>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #68 received at 9891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: juri <at> jurta.org, 9891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9891: 24.0.90; Duplicated entry at the info directory
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:03:03 -0400

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, 9891 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:41:58 -0400
> 
> I'm not sure what is being discussed.  Is it that the two above lines
> are kept, or that one of the two is removed as a duplicate?

That it is removed.

> And why is the other behavior better?

Because these are 2 different glibc functions.

>         Stefan "To my layman's eyes, the two lines are equivalent, just
>                 like "* GDB: (gdb)" and "* Gdb: (gdb)" and should be
>                 collapsed into one"

Evidently, this is not always true.  Leaving redundant information is
a lesser evil than removing non-redundant one, IMO.
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