bug#4438: many uncompressing *.info.gz...done messages

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Why does it uncompress the manual over and over?
Or if it doesn't why, does it show the million messages?

C-h i m g n u p l o t <return> i a <tab> <backspace>
b <tab> <backspace> c <tab>

Composing main Info directory...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
Making completion list...
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
Making completion list...
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
uncompressing gnuplot.info.gz...done
Making completion list...

In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.6)
 of 2009-09-10 on elegiac, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20090909-1)

(I don't really want to know "why".)
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