Re: Bug#39823: tetex-bin: Texinfo tools should have their own package =(

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Josip Rodin writes:
 > 
 > [please trip the CC: if appropriate]
 > 
 > On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 02:46:35PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
 > > Josip Rodin writes:
 > >  > On Sun, Jun 20, 1999 at 05:48:31PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
 > >  > > Look: 
 > >  > > "Need to get 13.9Mb of archives. After unpacking 34.8Mb will be used."
 > >  > > 
 > >  > >  I don't use TeX. I won't use TeX. I just need to use the texinfo
 > >  > > tools... =(
 > >  > 
 > >  > [ BTW I thought I submitted a bug like this before... odd. ]
 > >  > 
 > >  > Anyway, I also think texinfo stuff should be removed from tetex-bin
 > >  > package.
 > >  > 
 > >  > I'm texinfo source package maintainer, but I don't know which sources
 > >  > are better - GNU texinfo ones or those from teTeX? If the former, I'll
 > >  > include a 'texinfo' binary package from texinfo source. If it is the
 > >  > latter case, then tetex maintainer has to split it out himself.
 > > 
 > > So, someone should find out, which one is better.
 > 
 > I'm crossposting this now to the Texinfo pre-release mailing list,
 > people there should be able to tell us whether 'their' texinfo
 > tools are 'better' than those from teTeX.
 > 
 > Versions of programs in question are, I believe, texinfo 3.12i
 > and teTeX 0.9.990601. Both of those may be upgraded if there
 > is need, of course.

As for teTeX, current is 1.0x.
I will package it soon.
The version of texinfo in teTeX is 3.12 with some changes from Thomas
Esser: 
	* removed the stand-alone info reader
	* add support for the supplied zlib library (so it does not
	  need to exist on the system before installing teTeX) for
	  install-info.

So it's basically the same. I could configure teTeX
--without-texinfo for the next release.

Christoph