Re: texinfo-6.7.90 tarball contains files that "make distclean" erases

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Gavin Smith wrote:
> Also, if the *.c
> file was missing from the release and the user didn't have xsubpp, they would
> have no way to reproduce it, whereas if the *.c is incompatible and they
> do have xsubpp, they could always delete the *.c file and then regenerate
> it.
>   

The Perl kit includes xsubpp -- if the user does not have xsubpp, they 
do not have an XS-capable perl and the *.c files are useless to them 
anyway.  If they *do* have an XS-capable perl, xsubpp was installed 
along with it, barring *extreme* distribution packaging stupidity.  
Upstream GNU packages should not cater for that level of bad packaging.

> Maybe we could reconsider it after the next release but I only want to make
> very minor changes at this point.

That is fine if we are past a release code freeze, as long as this does 
get fixed in a future release.



-- Jacob