Re: binutils-2.12 installs old standards.info

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Mike,

> > Well binutils is a GNU project and it does follow the GNU coding
> > standards.
> 
> The only other GNU project that I know of, besides autoconf, that installs
> standards.info is gdb.
> 
> Gcc doesn't.  Bison doesn't.  Glibc doesn't.  Fileutils doesn't.  Sh-utils
> doesn't.  Tar doesn't.  And so on and so forth.
> 
> So, yes, it does appear that binutils is the odd one out.

But it does not cause any harm, does it ?

I am reluctant to delete it unless there is some problem with it.
Someone, somewhere, might actually be using it.

Cheers
        Nick