Re: texinfo-7.2.92 pretest available

On 17.02.26 Gavin Smith ([email protected]) wrote:

Hello,

> The next pretest distribution for the next Texinfo release has been
> uploaded to
> 
> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-7.2.92.tar.xz
> 
> Many thanks to all those who have tested earlier pretests and reported
> the results.  There have not been many changes since the previous pretest,
> and we hope to release this as Texinfo 7.3 in a few days' time.
> 

In Debian we have a patch, which replaces numerical signals in
tex2dvi [1]. The bug description is here [2]. I don't know if we
ever tried to place the patch in upstreams code (and it was refused).

Please have a look if it makes sense to accept the patch. Thanks!

Hilmar

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/tex-team/texinfo/-/raw/master/debian/patches/numerical-signal-names?ref_type=heads
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/256287

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