Comment # 5 on bug 1201852 from Adam Majer

(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #4)
> (In reply to Adam Majer from comment #3)
> > There is no support for other than manpages in libalternatives, so this is
> > out of scope. The only thing that can be done here is the manpage should be
> > patched to refer to `info mailutils mail` instead of just generic name.
> 
> This is not correct ... on my Tumbleweed I get for
> 
>    info mail
> 
> the section mail from mailutils!  How this?

Yes, I see that too. It works for me as well.

I even removed mailx and just have mu-mail installed and I get same infopage as
before. The manpage did change to the one that Matej sees but info page still
works.

# info -w mail
/usr/share/info/mailutils.info.gz

Mateh, what do you see here? There should be 3 files as part of mailutils,

# ls /usr/share/info/mailutils.info*
/usr/share/info/mailutils.info-1.gz  /usr/share/info/mailutils.info-2.gz 
/usr/share/info/mailutils.info.gz

# rpm -qV mailutils
no errors?

But this is not configured via alts? Right? The filetriggers to update the
directory are different and just create general index AFAIK.


> > IMHO, it's broken to refer to non-explicit names in the first place. Generic
> > names are substitutable but actual programs are not. manpage for mailutils
> > mail should refer to info mailutils mail. mailx manpage is much nicer.
> 
> I'm not the author nor upstream of mailutils and I'll not write manual pages
> for mailutils.  And as told on my Tumbleweed the pointer to the subsection
> of mail in mailutils info pages works flawless
> 
>  suse/werner> grep mail: /usr/share/info/dir
>  * decodemail: (mailutils) decodemail.           Decode MIME messages.
>  * mail: (mailutils) mail.                       Send and Receive Mail.
>  * movemail: (mailutils) movemail.               Move Mail between Mailboxes.
> 
> NO idea why on Matej Tumbleweed the /usr/share/info/dir seems to be broken

Works for me too.