info location in elpa about ess HOT 2 CLOSED

@vspinu if you're going to send a PR to the MELPA folks regarding #543, we might as well tackle this issue at the same time since implementing this would require another PR.

That said, I don't think we need to move the info files. Other packages (e.g. magit, use-package) also put their info files at the top level, and the Elisp manual seems to suggest that this is considered best practice:

If the content directory contains a file named ‘dir’, this is assumed
to be an Info directory file made with ‘install-info’. *Note Invoking
install-info: (texinfo)Invoking install-info. The relevant Info files
should also be present in the content directory. In this case, Emacs
will automatically add the content directory to ‘Info-directory-list’
when the package is activated.

and `content-directory just means

The tar file must be named ‘NAME-VERSION.tar’,
where NAME is the package name and VERSION is the version number. Its
contents, once extracted, must all appear in a directory named
‘NAME-VERSION’, the “content directory”.

So my vote is to close this issue.

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@jabranham, great research! Indeed, looks like what we do is indeed the standard.

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