bug#81105: 32.0.50; installed ELPA package info missing on some distros after commit 7c22a7d

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:34:24 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected],  [email protected],  [email protected]
> Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:22:27 +0000
> 
> > Yes, documenting this is a good idea.
> 
> We don't really talk much about Info manuals for packages in the Emacs
> manual, so I suggest just adding a footnote to (emacs) Packages:

Something like that, yes.

> +Emacs Lisp program, sometimes including other components such as an Info
> +manual@footnote{Note that if your system sets the @env{INFOPATH}
> +environmental variable, without a trailing path separator, then this
> +shadow the manuals that Emacs registers during startup, @xref{Other Info
   ^^^^^^
"shadows".  Also, @xref should be @pxref

And I wonder whether we should explicitly say that "path separator"
means colon or semi-colon, not the slash.