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31.0.50; package-vc-install won't install more than one info file

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From: David Fussner <dfussner <at> googlemail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 31.0.50; package-vc-install won't install more than one info file
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:24:35 +0000

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When an ELPA package contains more than one info manual,
package-vc-install (and package-vc-rebuild) will only install one
of them, and the title of that manual doesn't always correspond with
its contents.

To reproduce:

emacs -Q
(require 'package-vc)
(setopt package-vc-allow-build-commands '(auctex))
;; If your make isn't GNU make then it's more complicated
M-x package-vc-install RTN auctex RTN
;; (the cloning takes quite a while, at least for me -- apologies)

In ~/emacs.d/elpa/auctex there will be one info file, auctex.info. If
you look inside, it actually contains the preview-latex manual. The
dir file claims to provide both auctex and preview-latex.

One-liner attached which works for me, but I haven't tested it thoroughly.

Many thanks,

David.

In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 4, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
 3.24.31, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2025-10-30
Repository revision: cb3962138f95a84ed99c8f438667bedaf213c21a
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12014000
System Description: Slackware 15.0 x86_64

Configured using:
 'configure
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/local/share/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig'

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ
JPEG LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP
SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP X11 XDBE XIM
XINERAMA
XINPUT2 XPM XRANDR GTK3 ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

[0001-Fix-package-vc-to-install-multiple-info-manuals.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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