Bug#889631: Bug#889647: mpfr 4.0 branch fails to build with texinfo.tex from automake

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi everyone,

> I see that the texinfo.tex version in automake is from 2013, and is definitely

Automake is ^W (redacted). This is so much out of date that I not even
consider it for bug reports.

The version shipped by automake if from
  texinfo 4.13
which was released around 2008 (!!!!!!!!!)

Since then there have been the releases of 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2,
6.3, 6.3, and 6.5, all of which (besides 6.2) have been in Debian.

> assume texinfo's version of texinfo.tex is too old as well for the mpfr4 build,

That is a problem of mpfr4. If they require a texinfo.tex that is newer
than what is in the latest released version, then this is a problem of
mpfr4, and not texinfo.

The latest release of texinfo is 6.5, and that is what is shipped in
Debian and that is what texinfo.tex corresponds to.

This bug shoud be (only) assigned to automake and mpfr4.

All the best

Norbert

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