"info automake" no longer works

[Vincent Lefevre]

Under Debian/unstable, when I type "info automake", I get the man page
(default fallback) instead of the GNU Automake manual.

The Debian package 6.0.0.dfsg.1-1 is also buggy, but 5.2.0.dfsg.1-6
is OK (e.g. after downgrading to this version).

In strace output for 5.2.0.dfsg.1-6, I get:

[...]
25831 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-1.15.info", 0x7ffdbf157770) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
25831 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-1.15.info.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_size=3206, ...}) = 0
[...]

In strace output for 6.0.0.dfsg.1-1, I get:

[...]
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.info", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.info.gz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.info.lz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.info.xz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.info.bz2", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.info.z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.info.lzma", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.info.Z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.info.Y", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-info", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-info.gz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-info.lz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-info.xz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-info.bz2", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-info.z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-info.lzma", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-info.Z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake-info.Y", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake/index", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake/index.gz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake/index.lz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake/index.xz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake/index.bz2", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake/index.z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake/index.lzma", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake/index.Z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake/index.Y", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.inf", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.inf.gz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.inf.lz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.inf.xz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.inf.bz2", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.inf.z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.inf.lzma", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.inf.Z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.inf.Y", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.gz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.lz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.xz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.bz2", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.lzma", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.Z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
25116 stat("/usr/share/info/automake.Y", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
25116 stat("./automake.info", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake.info.gz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake.info.lz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake.info.xz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake.info.bz2", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake.info.z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake.info.lzma", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake.info.Z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake.info.Y", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake-info", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake-info.gz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake-info.lz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake-info.xz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake-info.bz2", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake-info.z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake-info.lzma", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake-info.Z", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake-info.Y", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake/index", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
25116 stat("./automake/index.gz", 0x7ffe03e0d840) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
[...]

The /usr/share/info/dir file contains:

* automake-invocation: (automake-1.15)automake Invocation.
* Automake: (automake-1.15).    Making GNU standards-compliant Makefiles.

in both cases, in case this matters (according to strace, this file
is read in both cases).

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