Re: Who owns dir and {standards,configure}.info?

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) skribis:

> As far as I know, configure.texi does not exist in autoconf and never
> has.  It was written by Cygnus (hence gdb/binutils) and doesn't seem to
> have been updated in many years.  Much of it still looks somewhat
> meaningful, other parts look obsolete.  Perhaps the right thing to do
> there is ask the gdb/binutils maintainers to update it or (more likely?)
> remove it.  Continuing to distribute it in its stale form doesn't seem
> like a good thing.  If they prefer to transfer maintainership of the
> document to autoconf or gnustandards, that could be considered.
>
> It makes some sense for standards.texi to be installed by autoconf, but
> not gdb/binutils any more, IMHO.  (It happens for the same historical
> reasons as above.)  I suggest filing separate bug reports to ask
> gdb/binutils not to do so any more.

Makes sense to me.

  http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16327
  http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16328

Thanks!

Ludo’.