Hi, I had reported the following bug in the Debian BTS, and this is still an issue:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882844 In 2017, with GNU Automake 1.15.1: "automake --add-missing" installs the texinfo.tex file it distributes, which is really obsolete: 2013-02-01.11 while the current version is 2017-08-23.19. The texinfo.tex file was no longer obsolete with GNU Automake 1.16 in January 2019. But this issue, which has never been fixed, is now visible again with GNU Automake 1.17: In the MPFR working copy under Debian/unstable (trixie is probably also affected): qaa% rm doc/texinfo.tex qaa% automake --add-missing doc/Makefile.am:25: installing 'doc/texinfo.tex' qaa% grep def.texinfoversion doc/texinfo.tex \def\texinfoversion{2024-02-10.22} qaa% grep def.texinfoversion /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex \def\texinfoversion{2024-11-04.20} (where /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex is the up-to-date file provided by texinfo). The issue is that "automake --add-missing" installs the texinfo.tex file it distributes (which can be very old as seen in the 2017 case) while there may be a newer Texinfo installed under the standard texmf directory. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
