Bug#233925: exim4-doc-info: missing or damaged index entries

[Marc Haber]

severity #233925 wishlist
tags #233925 upstream
forwarded #233925 http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81
thanks

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:43:51AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 11:14:23AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:03:14PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > As far as I can tell, i followed by anything produces this response.
> > > exim4-doc-info is now 4.60-2
> > 
> > Can you please retry with 4.60a-1 from unstable? Upstream has, once
> > more, re-worked the documentation creation process and won't accept
> > bugs against the older version.
> I'm not seeing that in unstable yet; I presume it will show up in a
> few days.

It is in http://incoming.debian.org/ and will be in unstable after
tonight's mirror pulse

> In the meantime, I can answer some questions.
> > Additionally, since I do not run emacs in a productive environment,
> > can you please validate whether the issue can be reproduced with text
> > mode emacs as well? I'd like to do the tests in a chroot.
> I unset DISPLAY within a KDE Konsole, which is enough to get text
> mode.  emacs behaves the same.

Ok.

> As a simpler route, I also tried info.  It displays "No indices
> found." immediately when I hit the "i" key.  It seems to handle
> completion a bit differently too; I had to type "m exim4" to get it to
> jump to the docs (vs "m exim" with emacs).  Since Exim4 and
> Exim4-filter are both top-level topics, there's an ambiguity.
> 
> By the way, the filter doc also says "No indices found" in info.

I can reproduce this. Upstream bugzilla #81. Thanks for helping.

Greetings
Marc

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