Manual page and library file

Preuße, Hilmar <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jan 2025 23:51:07 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello,

I have two small questions, I hope they can be answered easily.

1. In the DBTS we got a bug report telling that pod2texi.1 contains 
formatting errors [1]. The header of that file reads:

.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man (Pod::Simple)
.\"
.\" Standard preamble:

As the file is (re)generated I refused to accept the patch.

By looking at a build log [2] however I noticed that the file is not 
(re)generated, instead there is a file called pod2texi.1 in your git 
source tree. Is the header statement still correct?

2. In Debian we installed the .la files into /usr/lib/texinfo/ until 
version 7.1.1 [3]. For the 7.2 packages [4] I skipped them: I could 
convert some files using texi2any, so no drawbacks visible until now.

Are these files really needed?

Please keep me in Cc, I'm not subscribed.

Many thanks,
   Hilmar

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1092062
[2] 
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=texinfo&arch=amd64&ver=7.2-1&stamp=1736298994&raw=0
[3] https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/texinfo-lib/filelist
[4] https://packages.debian.org/experimental/amd64/texinfo-lib/filelist
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