[PATCH] manual: Use Software development as @dircategory

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Jun 20 09:40:48 GMT 2025


* Andreas Schwab:

> On Jun 20 2025, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> This puts the glibc manual next to other development tools
>> such as binutils and GCC.
>>
>> The glibc manual contains some information for end users and system
>> administrators, but this is just small subset, so this placement
>> seems the better choice.  On current Fedora, the Software development
>> category is not otherwise used.
>
> But glibc is a library, and Emacs merges it with other libraries under
> the Libraries topic (see Info-streamline-headings).

The standalone Info viewer does not perform such category merging (not
even to make the names case-insensitive).

The “Software development” category name is much more stable across
toolchain packages.

I can drop this patch, and we can consider the lack of merging a viewer
bug.

Thanks,
Florian



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