info documentation missing

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical)]

The info documentation is missing from glibc-doc

[towsonu2003 (towsonu2003)]

looking at http://directory.fsf.org/glibc.html and http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/ , I think the documentation is under /usr/share/doc/libc6

am I correct?

[packet (packet)]

The info documentation is included in glibc-doc-reference. The real bug here is, the glibc-doc's doc-base entry (/usr/share/doc-base/glibc-manual) references the info files, but the package does not depend on glibc-doc-reference. A related bug is #61120.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

The documentation in glibc-doc-reference is out of date.

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione)]

Scott we did address this bug, didn't we?

[Michael Olson (mwolson)]

This is not currently fixed in gutsy. No info files are installed, yet the package description for glibc-doc mentions "Contains The GNU C Library Reference manual in info and html format". Either the info files need to be added, or the package description needs to be changed to remove the mention of the info files. I would strongly prefer the former solution.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

glibc (2.6-4ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Upstream tarball including GFDL'd documentation.
    - Don't apply patches for architectures not found in Ubuntu.
    - Build optimized sparc packages.
    - Support lpia.
    - Minor differences to be cleaned up.
  * glibc-doc: Install the documentation in info format. Closes: LP: #60607.

  * Merge changes from Debian:
    * mips/cvs-gscope_flag.diff: new patch to fix build on mips/mipsel.
    * arm/cvs-gscope_flag.diff: new patch to fix build on arm/armel.
    * any/cvs-initfini.diff: new patch from upstream to fix crti.o on
      ppc64. Closes: #434626.
    * debian/sysdeps/powerpc.mk: build libc6-ppc64 with gcc-4.2.
    * debian/control: Remove build-depend on gcc-4.1 on powerpc.

glibc (2.6-4) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Samuel Thibault ]
  * sysdeps/hurd.mk (CC, BUILD_CC): Remove.
  * control: Build-depend on gcc-4.2 on hurd-i386.

  [ Pierre Habouzit ]
  * any/cvs-glibc-2_6-branch.diff: upstream branch pull, includes:
    + any/cvs-ld-integer-overflow.diff
    + any/cvs-malloc.diff
    + any/cvs-nis-nss-default.diff
    + any/cvs-nscd-short-replies.diff
    + any/cvs-vfscanf.diff

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * debian/sysdeps/powerpc.mk: build libc6-ppc64 with gcc-4.1 as gcc-4.2
    produces broken binaries.
  * debian/control: Build-depend on gcc-4.1 on powerpc
  * debian/control: Build-depend on g++-4.1/g++-4.2 and
    g++-4.1-multilib/g++-4.2-multilib.
  * debian/*.NEWS: move to debian/debhelper.in/*.NEWS.
  * rules.d/debhelper.mk: remove debian/*.NEWS on clean.
  * sparc/submitted-gscope_flag.diff: new patch to fix build on sparc.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:22:15 +0200