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Re: Policy on updating info/ directory?
From: |
Pavel Janík |
Subject: |
Re: Policy on updating info/ directory? |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Dec 2001 10:00:37 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (i386-suse-linux-gnu) |
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
Avoid temporary variables.
-- The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher)