[tex-live] texi2dvi missing

[Norbert Preining]

On Mi, 25 Nov 2009, George N. White III wrote:
> $ tlmgr show --list collection-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.

100% right.

> If you are on *x you can get texinfo utilities from the vendor/distro.

100% right.

>    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>

0% right.

There is NO license problem with respect to including texinfo into
TeX Live at all. We (TeX Live hat on) accept GFDL. OTOH, for Debian
(Debian hat on) GFDL is not free enough.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining                                        Associate Professor
JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   preining at jaist.ac.jp
Vienna University of Technology                               preining at logic.at
Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force)                    preining at debian.org
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