On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 12:37:40AM +0000, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > > 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.
Debian has its update-info-dir script which is similar but we don't distribute update-info-dir as part of Texinfo or keep a copy in the source repository. It seems from the Fedora links that the script is kept in a git repository. They don't rely on getting it from a Texinfo distribution. I think the file can be copied where needed to other distributions. Are these the two fixes you referred to? https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/texinfo/blob/rawhide/f/texinfo-6.5-fix-info-dir.patch
