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Re: wishlist: Please add update-info-dir to distribution (from Debian)
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Norbert Preining |
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Re: wishlist: Please add update-info-dir to distribution (from Debian) |
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Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:22:00 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hi Karl,
On Fr, 14 Aug 2009, Karl Berry wrote:
> I'd like to propose that the update-info-dir(8) program would be
> accepted to the the official texinfo package.
>
> Sorry, I don't want to do so. I don't want to write the documentation,
> I don't want lots of users to run it willy-nilly thinking something
> perfect will happen, etc. Plus the script is hardly in the usual GNU
> style or using the best constructs, as Norbert himself would be the
> first to admit. Finally, we'd want to have copyright assigned.
Documentation we have in man page, the copyright I think I have
assigned already to FSF AFAIR, for some contributions to makeinfo which
probably extends to that script.
But I agree that it is not perfect style ... I asked several times
for improvements but never got any good suggestions ;-) You know that
my sh code is far from perfect ;-)
> the latest version[1] and its manual page below.
>
> Thanks, I'll update the copy in texinfo.
But it isn't part of texinfo, so do you add it or not?
Best wishes
Norbert
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