texinfo contains the possibility to translate some tags (e.g. the headings) by using the @documentlanguage command; but the needed txi-*.txi files are missing. While building a RPM including these files I ran into the problem that the tetex package brings its own texinfo.tex which conflicts with my enhancements. Because the tetex-texinfo version seems to be obsoleted and doesn't contains the other I think the standalone texinfo-package should provide all needed files including texinfo.tex. I will send the diffs against the spec-file of 4.0-2 which solves bug #6632 by the way...
Created attachment 72 [details] Diff against texinfo-4.0-2 spec-file
Thanks - I've fixed the info-stnd stuff (somewhat different from what you suggested though). As for the txi stuff, the reason why they aren't included is the conflict with tetex; I'd rather have tetex updated with the current files from texinfo than moving them out of tetex and putting them into texinfo. Assigning this to the owner of tetex...
Just so I'm absolutely clear: which files exactly need updating? I think it's /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-*.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex with additional files: /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/epsf.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/config/texinfo.cnf Is that right?
Yes; the first two files are in current tetex already. The location of 'texinfo.cnf' is variable as long it is under the texmf-root and has been seen by the 'texhash' command. I have choosen the 'config' subdir because the other TeX modules are using it also.
Okay, in fact it looks like just updating the texinfo in the tetex SRPM to the current texinfo (as well as adding those two files to the manifest) will fix this.
If the texinfo.cnf is left out, is that a huge problem? I think that texinfo rather than tetex should provide that, if at all.
I would like to see it as a template where the user can make its changes. Because the documentation does not say something about the place/directory where this file should be located, a standard texinfo.cnf in the distribution would give an hint where it can be expected on a RH system. But if it does not fit into current packages, you can omit it...
Now that I look more closely at this, these seem up to date already: /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-*.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Fixed in tetex-1.0.7-16.