Re: Bug#793067: Bug#792328: info: can no longer find the Emacs manual

[Karl Berry]

    would be useful for install-info to be able to do some transformation,
    along with a transformation of the filename. (Karl, please explain why
    you think this is a bad idea.)

Having I-I being able to transform dir file entries I have no particular
objection to.  I suppose that is the way differently-named entries could
get into the dir file.  It would just be a convenience over using
--name.  It seems to me like it would be a pretty simple post-install
script at the Debian level to add version numbers to the dir entries
with the existing I-I, but what do I know.

What I see as trouble is having I-I install the info files, instead of
just dir entries.  That would be a huge new can of worms.  (Admittedly
the program was poorly named, but oh well.)

    If you don't care about being able to access renamed files via
    cross-references, 
     
Indeed, I was assuming that all cross-manual cross-references would go
to generic names, like "emacs", not "emacs24.5".  In that case, I see no
need to rename files.  Installing the info files in a subdir, plus
symlinks for the generic name, plus versioned entries in the main dir
file for easy user access, seems like enough to me.  But I already said
that and apparently there's no agreement, so whatever ...

k