bug#79802: Please upgrade texinfo.tex, currently included version caused FTFBS in gnutls
Eric Dorland via Bug reports for Automake <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:04:04 -0500
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Thanks Karl. So you would recommend getting all those files from gnulib? It's a large package but I guess we could split out the automake depending parts into a smaller package. * Karl Berry ([email protected]) wrote: > Hi Eric. I updated texinfo.tex (and other common files) in the automake > repository. Thanks for mentioning it. Closing this. --karl. > > P.S. Not so much directed at you as at the archives, for the sake of > other people who have written recently about this recurring question ... > I hope the suggestion was not to make another automake release. We have > never tried to make automake releases for such "mirrored file" problems > -- that would result in constant churn. The de-synchronization of > automake with the absolute latest version of everything is > unavoidable. Thus, people who need the latest version need to arrange to > get it themselves, e.g., from gnulib, since automake's version is hardly > ever the current one. > -- Eric Dorland <[email protected]> 43CF 1228 F726 FD5B 474C E962 C256 FBD5 0022 1E93