[help-texinfo] Re: [gnu.org #136509] broken links

[Karl Berry]

       http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/ pages and do not know

When savannah /webcvs comes back, you will (or should) ...

       who generated the automake manual there (it seems to be

There was never a good scheme for getting the manuals updated.  The
current theory is for maintainers to do this (under /software/PACKAGE),
although of course it's impossible right now due to savannah lossage.

     - this seems to be a problem with the URLs makeinfo generates
       for cross-referenced manuals: it assumes all manuals lie
       in the same directory.

Cross-references to external manuals is a hard problem, for many
reasons.  Patrice Dumas and I have exchanged a lot of email about this,
and have various plans for a solution, but nothing is going to be
implemented instantaneously, or even (most likely) for the next release.