GNU bug report logs - #11146
texinfo: could automake start using the '--tidy' option in its dvi and pdf rules?

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 12:32:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
To: stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com
Cc: 11146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, automake-patches <at> gnu.org, texinfo-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#11146: texinfo: could automake start using the '--tidy' option in its dvi and pdf rules?
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:02:47 -0700

    Since the '--tidy' option has only been introduced in Texinfo
    4.9

More ordinary English syntax would be:
  Since the '--tidy' option was introduced in Texinfo 4.9

(Though the meaning is clear in the original.)

    The users should be warned about the planned behavioural change

I have the impression that Automake (mostly) uses American English,
rather than British English.  Since that's where it was created, after
all.  Hence, I suggest: behavioral.


The actual change seems fine to me, FWIW.

karl
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