#1534 providing gnuplot.texi file

[Jonathan JoKoT3 Gibert]

Hello,

I'm the maintainer of the package gnuplot-nox for arch linux (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnuplot-nox/). The package is designed to have less dependencies than the official one.
The release 5.0 does not contain the file gnuplot.texi which is used to generate the gnuplot.info file that I was providing with the package until now. For this reason I had to add a build dependency to emacs to successfully generate the info file.
In the previous release the texi file was present in the archive, Is it possible to provide it again in the archive ?

[Ethan Merritt]

gnuplot.texi was removed from the repository 4 years ago (Feb 2011) in accordance with the general policy that generated files (binaries, etc) do not belong there. It can be generated from the source files in the .../docs/ directly via the make target
make gnuplot.texi
or indirectly via the target
make info

Related information from the file README.emacs:

The emacs gnuplot-mode is a major mode for composing gnuplot scripts and
displaying their results using gnuplot. It can be obtained from MELPA or
from a distribution such as Debian or Ubuntu. Otherwise, the source
lives at

 https://github.com/bruceravel/gnuplot-mode

This mode offers several tools to help you compose your scripts,
including font-lock syntax colorization, a syntax table appropriate
to gnuplot, key bindings, pull-down menus, indentation, keyword
completions and variable customization using the Custom package.
Once the script is composed, there are several function for sending
some or all of the script to gnuplot.  The interaction with the
gnuplot process is within a comint buffer.  Plots can optionally be
displayed within Emacs.

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The gnuplot.info from the gnuplot-mode site given above is at least 2 years more recent than anything you could have pulled from the gnuplot repository. I would suggest dropping both gnuplot.texi and gnuplot.info from your gnuplot package and either creating a separate package for gnuplot-mode or an install-time referral to the site above for anyone who wants emacs support.