Re: texinfo-7.2.91 pretest available

On 2026-02-11 17:26:35 +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> 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.

It can yield issues for the HTML version in Firefox (it did for me).

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