tag 725408 + confirmed
thanks
OK, I see it now; since I'm using emacs24 these days, I had to re-run
your tests with emacs24-common-non-dfsg on my end to reproduce the
behavior you see.
Cheers,
--Seb
On Oct/27, Thomas Koch wrote:
> I could reproduce this behaviour also with 'emacs -q'. My org-mode package is
> from backports but my org-mode-doc package from testing since there isn't one
> in backports.
>
> I've purged both emacs23-common-non-dfsg and org-mode-doc and reinstalled
> only
> org-mode-doc from testing. Than I see the version 8 of org-mode info
> documentation in emacs.
>
> After installing emacs23-common-non-dfsg again, I see version 6 of the org
> mode documentation.
>
> I've purged both packages again and installed emacs23-common-non-dfsg first
> and
> org-mode-doc afterwards and still only see version 6 of org-mode in the info
> browser.
>
> When I run "info" from the shell, I see the org 8 manual.
>
> The solution might be related to this:
>
> Info-directory-list is a variable defined in `info.el'.
> Its value is ("/usr/share/info/emacs-23" "/usr/share/info/"
> "/usr/share/info/")
>
>
> Documentation:
> List of directories to search for Info documentation files.
> If nil, meaning not yet initialized, Info uses the environment
> variable INFOPATH to initialize it, or `Info-default-directory-list'
> if there is no INFOPATH variable in the environment, or the
> concatenation of the two if INFOPATH ends with a colon.
>
> When `Info-directory-list' is initialized from the value of
> `Info-default-directory-list', and Emacs is installed in one of the
> standard directories, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs
> is put last (so that local Info files override standard ones).
>
> When `Info-directory-list' is initialized from the value of
> `Info-default-directory-list', and Emacs is not installed in one
> of the standard directories, the first element of the resulting
> list is the directory where Emacs installs the Info files that
> come with it. This is so that Emacs's own manual, which suits the
> version of Emacs you are using, will always be found first. This
> is useful when you install an experimental version of Emacs without
> removing the standard installation.
>
> If you want to override the order of directories in
> `Info-default-directory-list', set INFOPATH in the environment.
>
> If you run the Emacs executable from the `src' directory in the Emacs
> source tree, and INFOPATH is not defined, the `info' directory in the
> source tree is used as the first element of `Info-directory-list', in
> place of the installation Info directory. This is useful when you run
> a version of Emacs without installing it.
>
> Regards, Thomas Koch
>
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