bug#14410: GNU Automake 1.13.2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Stefano.

Thanks for the detailed announcement. One learns things reading it. :-)

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg52840.html>

It seems anti-spam measures broke the above link.


>   - Use of Texinfo input files with '.txi' or '.texinfo' extensions
>     is discouraged, and its use will raise warnings in the 'obsolete'
>     category.  You are advised to simply use the '.texi' extension
>     instead.

After reading this, I have noticed an inconsistency between the automake 
and texinfo manuals about what extension is preferred:

[1]http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Texinfo.html
"Any Texinfo source file must end in the .texi, .txi, or .texinfo 
extension. We recommend .texi for new manuals."

[2]http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Minimum.html
"By convention, the name of a Texinfo file ends with (in order of 
preference) one of the extensions .texinfo, .texi, .txi, or .tex. The 
longer extensions are preferred since they describe more clearly to a 
human reader the nature of the file. The shorter extensions are for 
operating systems that cannot handle long file names."


Is there a reason to recommend a different extension that what texinfo 
itself recommends?


Regards,
Antonio.