GNU bug report logs - #79419
"automake --add-missing" should not install an obsolete texinfo.tex file

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
To: vincent <at> vinc17.net, 79419 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#79419: "automake --add-missing" should not install an obsolete texinfo.tex file
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:09:49 -0600

Hi Vincent,

    This requires manual setup *each time* "automake --add-missing" needs
    to be used.

Well, or writing a tiny script to do whatever you want to do. That's the
real solution, it seems to me.

For texinfo.tex in particular, you could possibly use the TEXINFO_TEX
variable, as I wrote before.

I see no viable alternative in general. I don't want to create new
configuration variables for every file. Sorry. -k
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