On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 05:57:29PM +0100, Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Hi Eli, > > Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes: > > > I'd expect downstream distros to do that already. If they don't, > > maybe Texinfo should (although I'm not sure how to arrange for that in > > a way that won't make the job of Texinfo release too complicated). I > > definitely agree that it would be good to have info.info accompany the > > Texinfo installation. > > Checking Fedora, Debian and Gentoo, it'd appear none of them do that.
For Debian, info.info is in emacs-common-non-dfsg, "GNU Emacs common non-DFSG items, including the core documentation" which is in non-free, because of invariant sections. I do not think that there are invariant sections in info.texi, but I guess that the Debian packagers do not try to distinguish each manual in Emacs based on the specific conditions. I think that it makes it more difficult to setup info to depend on a subpackage to be done that would include info.info only. Maybe it could be possible to open bugs to have both info readers depend on info.info in the diverse distributions. -- Pat
