On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:05:00PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:37:22PM -0300, you wrote: > >I was going to report a new bug, but I noticed this one. This is > >should be easy to fix, right? > > No its not. The "fix" doesn't work reliably either. "info whatever" > should work fine; "info coreutils whatever" is a hack to try to work > around something else that's broken in another package. There's nothing > I can do in coreutils to fix this (as described in numerous extant bug > reports). The underlying bug is in dpkg, and there's a bug report there > outlining the issue.
Ugh, yes, I just read bug #139569. Thanks for the explanation, and sorry to bug you. happy hacking, -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
