Re: texinfo-4.13.93 pretest available

[Karl Berry]

Hi Norbert,

    because help2man is missing, and it tries to re-generated texi2dvi.1
    Is there a reason for that?

Sure, of course there's a reason :).  The dependency on the source file
is the only way man page regeneration can work (reliably) :).

    we patch texi2dvi in a trivial way.

Is your change something I can install?

    I can easily add help2man to the build-deps, 

I think you should, regardless of anything else.  It's normal for
help2man to be required if you're messing with the sources.  Just like
if you changed info.c or texi2any[.pl], etc.

    but since it was a change introduced between .92 and .93 there might
    be a reason.

Yes, the reason is that I actually made a change to texi2dvi :),
which I hadn't done since April 2012, before the pretests started.
Thus probably your patching was not triggered, hence man page
regeneration was not triggered.
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/texinfo/util/texi2dvi?root=texinfo&view=log

Best,
k