Re: missing fix-info-dir in dist tar balll; RFE: integrate fix-info-dir script into info binary

[Gavin Smith]

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?

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!).

I think it's unlikely that we could immediately add the functionality
to the info binary and the more immediate change would be distribute
the script.