On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 01:06:45PM +0000, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looks like in the latest 7.0 and 7.0.1 dist tar balls are no longer
> included in the fix-info-dir script.
> That script is used to update dir file and is used by many distributions.
>
> IMO the best would be to integrate functionality of that script straight
> into info binary.
The script was under contrib/fix-info-dir. The whole contrib/ directory
was excluded from the tar ball.
Which distributions use the script and when/how is it run?
Fedora is using it
It is very useful on regenerate dir file after any changes on add/remove info pages on add/remove/upgrade packages which provide documentation as info pages.
I'm using it in my own distribution as well.
The script appears to have hardly any attention paid to it since
it was written (the copyright year in the version message is still
printed as 1998!).
And that's OK because it still works as expected.
In Fedora there are two small fixes which can be committed to the texinfo source tree.
kloczek