On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:52:32AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Package: coreutils
> > Version: 5.94-1
> > Followup-For: Bug #345035
> >
> > ... also: to get 'info dd' one has to 'info coreutils dd', otherwise
> > 'info ddd' is presented.
> 
> FYI, in general, even
>   info coreutils <program_name>
> is insufficient.
> For example, `info coreutils pr' gets the `Printing text' section.
> 
> IMHO, this is a bug in `info' (of the texinfo package).  It should do
> a best-match-first search, instead of the current `first-match' search.
> I requested this privately of the upstream maintainer.  He's receptive,
> just waiting for a volunteer to write the code.

I can't help in coding the necessary changes (as I can't code) ... But
why not reassign 345035 to the package being responsible for the
issue? To dpkg - see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244658 
- Or texinfo? Whatever .. 

Best Regards
Wolfgang

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