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26.3; Packaging system: Package documentation in the *Help* buffer

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
Cc: 39609 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#39609: 26.3; Packaging system: Package documentation in the
 *Help* buffer
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 18:59:12 +0100

dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:

> The Elisp manual (GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
> Version 3.22.30) of 2019-12-14) states that a README file in the content
> directory of a package will be used as a package description (C-h P).
>
> Please check
>
>   (info "(elisp) Multi-file Packages").
>
> Yet this isn't working!  By looking at other packages It seems that
> there must be a file `PACKAGE-NAME-readme.txt' BELOW the content
> directory to get a description in the package help.

I tried `C-h P ada-mode RET' and got a *Help* buffer that included the
README file for the ada-mode package, so I seem to be unable to
reproduce this bug.

Do you have a precise recipe to reproduce it, starting from "emacs -Q"?

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