Re: texinfo-7.2.91 pretest available

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 11:50:48PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Yes, as Patrice explains the current behaviour is a deliberate choice.
> > (It's wrong to term it a "regression".)
> 
> The fact is that until now, lang="en" was generated by default,
> and this has changed, introducing a silent bug in manuals where
> @documentlanguage isn't used (in particular because it was not
> needed for manuals in English). It would be much better to have
> @documentlanguage required[*] so that developers can notice the
> issue with new texinfo versions and fix it.
> 
> [*] possibly allowing an empty value for developers who do not
> want to specify a language (though I currently do not see a
> reason for that).

It would not be better in my opinion as it would break users' documents
for a very minor reason.  There's no harm as far as I am aware in not
specifying the language for documents in English.  I hardly see how it
can be termed a "bug" in those documents.