> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 22:02:19 GMT > From: [email protected] (Karl Berry) > > It makes some sense for standards.texi to be installed by autoconf, but > not gdb/binutils any more, IMHO. (It happens for the same historical > reasons as above.) I suggest filing separate bug reports to ask > gdb/binutils not to do so any more. > > maintain.texi is for the benefit of GNU maintainers and should not be > installed (except by individual people on their individual systems, if > they choose).
FWIW, I see no difference between maintain.texi and standards.texi. They are both about writing and maintaining GNU software. By contrast, users of Autoconf these days are likely to be end users who are just forced to use Autoconf because they downloaded a package that is a development snapshot and doesn't have the configure script (happens a lot with Gnome packages, for example).
