> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:22:37 +0000 > Cc: [email protected] > > 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? > > 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!). > > I think it's unlikely that we could immediately add the functionality > to the info binary and the more immediate change would be distribute > the script.
AFAIU, the script's effect is equivalent to deleting the existing DIR file and then running install-info on all the files in that directory to recreate DIR. Am I missing something?
