Re: wishlist: Please add update-info-dir to distribution (from Debian)

[Norbert Preining]

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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