[tex-live] texi2dvi missing

[George N. White III]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Wybo Dekker <wybo at servalys.nl> wrote:

> Up until 2008 we had texi2dvi, texi2pdf and texi2html in the texlive/bin
> directories. They are gone in 2009 - why?

$ tlmgr show --list collection-texinfo
package:    collection-texinfo
category:   Collection
shortdesc:  GNU Texinfo
longdesc:   TeX macros for the GNU Texinfo documentation system.  The
programs and documentation are no longer distributed with TeX Live;
get the original Texinfo package for your system.
installed:  Yes
revision:   15216
depends:
	texinfo
	collection-basic
Included files, by type:


$ tlmgr show --list texinfo
package:    texinfo
category:   Package
shortdesc:  Texinfo documentation system.
longdesc:   Info is the preferred format for documentation in the GNU
project; the format may be used to produce online or printed output
from a single source. The Texinfo macros may be used to produce
printable output using TeX; other programs in the distribution offer
online interactive use (with hypertext linkages in some cases). Note
that a developers' snapshot of the latest working version of the
Texinfo macros may be found in the Texinfo 'latest' package.
installed:  Yes
revision:   15878
collection: collection-texinfo
Included files, by type:
run files:
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.ini
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-cs.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-de.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-en.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-es.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-fr.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-it.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-nb.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-nl.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-nn.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-pl.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-pt.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-ru.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-sr.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-tr.tex
  texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-uk.tex

If you are on *x you can get texinfo utilities from the vendor/distro.
   The reasons
were discussed on this list -- there were conflicts with other
"install-info" programs
as well as license issues:

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356916>


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia