Who owns dir and {standards,configure}.info?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Several Info files have been distributed and installed by several
packages for a long time, notably:

  dir – installed by Emacs, GCC, GDB
  configure.info – installed by GDB and Binutils
  standards.info – installed by GDB, Binutils, Autoconf

The problem is that it makes it difficult as a user to choose the right
version.  (Typically with Guix there’s a collision when computing the
union of the installation directories of these packages.)

Seems to me that {configure,standards}.info should be installed
exclusively by Autoconf.

As for the initial ‘dir’, I think it would make sense to have it
installed by Texinfo only.

WDYT?

Ludo’.