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

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:

>> 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

Fixed.

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

I thought about this as well, an decided not to go into those details
and explaining when to use colon or a semi-colon, since we reference the
relevant node in the texinfo manual that goes into that.