FWIW, I see no difference between maintain.texi and standards.texi. Well, I do.
standards.texi is about conventions that GNU programs could/should follow. As it has turned out, and happily so, many non-GNU programs like to follow some or all of those conventions. So the audience for it is much more than just GNU. maintain.texi, in contrast, is about procedures to help GNU maintainers in dealing with their packages and has essentially zero utility for non-GNU people. Now, whether autoconf installs standards is a separate question. I am agnostic about that. My only point here is that I think it's reasonable for standards to be installed and maintain not to be. Best, Karl
