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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: makeinfo 4.7
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> 	When was Texinfo 4.7 released?
>     April 2004.
> That is over 2 years.  So it is ok for Emacs to need it.

You're probably right.  Could we just check that all the major GNU/Linux
distributions come with such a "recent" version of Texinfo (I'm of course
mostly thinking of Debian stable which has the tradition of upgrading late).


        Stefan