Re: Policy on updating info/ directory?

[Pavel Janík]

   From: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>
   Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:50:14 +0200

Hi Eli,

   > That's true: we don't put Info files into the CVS.  make-dist
   > generates them when the distribution is tarred.

maybe I did not tell that clearly. I was talking about directory info/ and
files there, not about file info/dir there.

   > Note that we supply the DIR file in the distribution, so any changes
   > in @direntry don't have any visible effect on what the users see.  So
   > there's no real need to update anything after such a change.

This is not true. Many distributors of GNU Emacs do not use info/dir,
because install-info can take direntry from the file. Some of them even
specify direntry on the command line of install-info by hand. Some of them
generate /usr/share/info/dir automatically so they are patching each info
file to contain proper direntry. I too do not use info/dir file.

   > > We have COPYING in this directory, which is GNU GPL version 2. But files 
(I
   > > have not checked if all or only some of them) from this directory are 
under
   > > GNU FDL, like emacs*. I think we should fix this immediately.
   > 
   > GFDL is part of the manual itself, as an appendix; see
   > man/doclicense.texi.  So I think this is okay.

It is part of the GNU Emacs manual. It is not part of message.texi,
gnus.texi etc. This can lead to confusion about copying conditions which is
*BAD*.
-- 
Pavel Janík

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