Subject: Re: bug#39682: 26.3; Help window for list-packages disabled

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 21:07:21 -0500

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> It would be good to know for sure that that was the problem.  But if
> you no longer have the old help-fns+.elc (byte-compiled before Emacs
> 24.4) then there's probably no way to reproduce the problem anymore.

I can reproduce it with

emacs-25.3 -Q --batch -l package -f batch-byte-compile help-fns+.el
emacs-26.3 -Q -l package -l help-fns+.elc -f list-packages -f package-menu-describe-package