Hi Gavin,
# Official releases only: Contact r...@tug.org to update texinfo at tug.org.
# If r...@tug.org doesn't reply, can try webmas...@tug.org,
# or (last resort) bo...@tug.org.
Right, that section in README-hacking should be deleted.
People on the Codeberg thread were also di
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 03:03:51PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> For many years (dating back to when I maintained Texinfo), the way
> Texinfo gets to CTAN is that I download the distribution tarball(s),
> unpack it in ftp://tug.org/tex/texinfo*, and CTAN mirrors from there.
> The CTAN metadata does no
I do not understand much about the way texinfo has been handled
up to now, but ...
On Wed 25 Jun 2025 at 08:22:22 +0200 Erik Braun wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2025, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> […]
> > In any case ... overall, I don't see a good reason to keep the Texinfo
> > sources/distribution on CTAN
On Tue, 24 Jun 2025, Karl Berry wrote:
[…]
> In any case ... overall, I don't see a good reason to keep the Texinfo
> sources/distribution on CTAN nowadays, and I'd be happy to stop doing
> the manual mirroring. Thus my suggestion is
>
> 1) delete CTAN:macros/texinfo/texinfo and texinfo.zip;
> 2)
GNU Guix uses SVN to get texlive-texinfo and other TexLive packages, and
https://svn.tug.org:8369/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/ really
doesn't have the files needed to generate Chinese and Japanese documents.
See:
https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/src/branch/master/guix/build-system
