[klodolph]

Issue #1 can be sidestepped by using the HTML docs, which are still info pages.

Issue #2, I think, is a packaging issue related to licensing and the peculiarities of Debian packaging rules. Normally, any time you install a package, you get the man pages and info pages.

[alexey-salmin]

Everything can be sidestepped, it's not the point. The point is for some users (a majority I suspect) info pages have the entry barrier too high. Not very high per se, but too high compared to what you normally expect from documentation which is no entry barrier at all. That happens due to an unfortunate combination of circumstances most of which have nothing to do with info pages format itself which is quite good.