reopen 113988 ! thanks I have now installed the patched Debian texinfo version 4.8-7, and yesterday I built the new emacs-snapshot version with it. Later, browsing through the info files, I found the following sentence:
This is the GNU Emacs FAQ, last updated on 16 März 2006. Ouch. Looks as if your patch was not quite perfect, Norbert. :-( The source code for that sentence is This is the GNU Emacs FAQ, last updated on @today{}. Kind Regards, Sven