in eo locale, install-info makes no entries

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hello hackers,

Some days ago I installed Ubuntu Karmic onto a netbook, using Esperanto as
the main locale.  Today I find that 'info' does not work:

$ info
info: La nodo «Top» ne troveblas.
$ LC_ALL=C info
info: Cannot find node `Top'.

In /usr/share/info there are some thirty gzipped info files, but the dir file 
just
contains the header in Esperanto and ends with the line "* Menu:".

Can anyone confirm that, starting with an absent dir file, install-info does
not work in an eo.utf8 locale?

When the dir file already contains a menu entry, using the Esperanto locale
does work, it only produces a warning.  Running for example the following
commands in /usr/share/info seems to produce a fully populated dir file, and
the 'info' command then works:

# rm dir
# LC_ALL=en_GB.utf8 ginstall-info grep.info.gz dir
# ls | LC_ALL=eo.utf8 xargs -n1 ginstall-info --dir-file=dir
install-info: averto: Nenia informo por Info-katalogo troviĝis en «dir»

$ info --version | head -1
info (GNU texinfo) 4.13

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Benno

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