I saw this line had been added to NEWS:

. Info:
  . Output a single hyphen at the start of a definition line

This change was in commit 3ee7ac39a8 (dated 2024-07-06, applied 2024-09-29).

The effect of this change is to have one hyphen rather than two:

- -- Library Function: int foobar (int F---OO, float B--AR)
+ - Library Function: int foobar (int F---OO, float B--AR)

I'm concerned whether this change to Info output for definition
commands is necessary.  Wouldn't it be better just to leave this output
alone as people will be used to having it with two hyphens?  Was it ever
only one hyphen in the past (e.g. with Texinfo 4.13, before the Perl
rewrite)?

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