On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 10:38:38PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote: > On 17.02.26 Gavin Smith ([email protected]) wrote: > > Hello, > > > The next pretest distribution for the next Texinfo release has been > > uploaded to > > > > https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.2.92.tar.xz > > > > Many thanks to all those who have tested earlier pretests and reported > > the results. There have not been many changes since the previous pretest, > > and we hope to release this as Texinfo 7.3 in a few days' time. > > > > In Debian we have a patch, which replaces numerical signals in > tex2dvi [1]. The bug description is here [2]. I don't know if we > ever tried to place the patch in upstreams code (and it was refused). > > Please have a look if it makes sense to accept the patch. Thanks! > > Hilmar > > [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/tex-team/texinfo/-/raw/master/debian/patches/numerical-signal-names?ref_type=heads > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/256287
It has not been proposed as far as I remember. I am not sure what the problem is with an "XSI:ism" or what exactly that is, but it would be fine to commit this in the sake of readability after the release. The autoconf manual (which is a kind of reference for system-portable shell programming) only refers to signals by their numeric names, so presumably there is or was some context in which the numeric names were preferred. https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.72/html_node/Limitations-of-Builtins.html
