On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 00:22, Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:06:45PM +0000, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Looks like in the latest 7.0 and 7.0.1 dist tar balls are no longer > > included in the fix-info-dir script. > > That script is used to update dir file and is used by many distributions. > > > > IMO the best would be to integrate functionality of that script straight > > into info binary. > > The script was under contrib/fix-info-dir. The whole contrib/ directory > was excluded from the tar ball. > > Which distributions use the script and when/how is it run? > Fedora is using it https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/texinfo/tree/rawhide https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/texinfo/blob/rawhide/f/texinfo.spec#_107 It is very useful on regenerate dir file after any changes on add/remove info pages on add/remove/upgrade packages which provide documentation as info pages. I'm using it in my own distribution as well. > The script appears to have hardly any attention paid to it since > it was written (the copyright year in the version message is still > printed as 1998!). > And that's OK because it still works as expected. In Fedora there are two small fixes which can be committed to the texinfo source tree. kloczek
