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Re: [DOCPATCH] upgrade texinfo.tex to 4.6
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 02:04:49 +0100 (BST)
> From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk>
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> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, James Morrison wrote:
>
> > While trying to make some change to the gcc documentation I came across
> > a bug in texinfo.tex currently in CVS for gcc. So, this patch upgrades both
> > 3.3 and mainline to have texinfo.tex from texinfo 4.6, the latest stable
> > release.
>
> You don't say what bug, but on mainline people with write access don't
> need approval to update texinfo.tex (it's missing from the list of
> upstream packages, but the same policy applies as for config.sub and
> config.guess, and updates of texinfo.tex haven't caused any problems with
> breaking things in the past). For 3.3 branch it's up to Mark and I expect
> that how the bug affects the manuals on the branch would be relevant. I
> presume that the new version successfully builds all the manuals on both
> mainline and branch with "make dvi" (you didn't say how the patch was
> tested).
>
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> Joseph S. Myers
> jsm@polyomino.org.uk
Well, I don't have write access. I think the bug had to do with multitables.
I did make info and make dvi and 3.3 and mainline and skimmed through the
dvi output.
Jim