GNU bug report logs - #38844
28.0.50; Incorrect result by help-fns--mention-first-release

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 09:37:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com>,
 38844 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38844: 28.0.50;
 Incorrect result by help-fns--mention-first-release
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:22:42 +0200

On January 1, 2020 11:36:28 AM GMT+02:00, Xu Chunyang <xuchunyang56 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> C-h f exec-path mentions "Probably introduced at or before Emacs
> version 22.1.", however, according to NEWS.27 the function exec-path
> is introduced in Emacs 27.1. I checked that Emacs 24.5 doesn't provide
> the function exec-path.

That's because 'exec-path' the variable was introduced a long time ago.  The heuristics we use to search the NEWS files for symbols cannot distinguish between diffetent kinds that have the same names.
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