Heiko Muenkel <muenkel(a)tnt.uni-hannover.de&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: Heiko, This was pointed out some time ago, but no resolution was reached without feedback from you. We have a small problem with the name of hm--html-menus. Makeinfo munges the double minus signs in the name when it puts together the direntry. In particular, this texinfo source from hm--html-menus.texi ＠direntry * Hm--Html-Mode:: mode for writing HTML pages ＠end direntry results in this START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * Hm-Html-Mode:: mode for writing HTML pages END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY in the generated info file. We need either a fix for GNU texinfo that the maintainers will accept, or we have to do something about the name of the hm--html-menus texinfo files. My official policy, for whatever it's worth, is that I don't care. In the case of something like cc-mode that is maintained separately and where the XEmacs development team has the responsibility for consing together the XEmacs package, the FSF Emacs files were removed[1]. Hypothetically speaking as the primary individual maintainer of footnote and whose primary source is stored in the XEmacs CVS repository, if there existed a footnote-fsf.el with portability stuff for FSF Emacs, I would store it in the repository, but would arrange to have the XEmacs build procedure not bytecompile it and either not install it, or install it as documentation. Michael Sperber does this, I believe. Footnotes: [1] With the consent of then-maintainer Barry Warsaw.