Subject: Re: bug#46236: 26.1; explicit the info files installation

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:00:49 +0300

> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:32:38 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>
> cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked], 
>     [email-masked]
> 
> A suggestion: when the info files bundled with Emacs cannot be found, 
> download them from info.gnu.org (after asking the user if they're okay 
> with that) and install them into ~/.emacs.d/info.

We already have the latest manuals at

  https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html

but what you suggest will require to maintain several versions back,
which is a non-trivial complication of the release procedures that are
already quite complex and tedious.  So I don't think we should take
this issue to be our problem to that level.