diff -r f0bee3b1b847 -r 5be909dbe385 mercurial/help.py
--- a/mercurial/help.py	Thu Nov 14 12:41:33 2019 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/help.py	Thu Nov 14 13:18:22 2019 -0800
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@
     util,
 )
 from .hgweb import webcommands
-from .utils import compression
+from .utils import (
+    compression,
+    resourceutil,
+)
 
 _exclkeywords = {
     b"(ADVANCED)",
@@ -311,7 +314,7 @@
     """Return a delayed loader for help/topic.txt."""
 
     def loader(ui):
-        docdir = os.path.join(util.datapath, b'helptext')
+        docdir = os.path.join(resourceutil.datapath, b'helptext')
         if subdir:
             docdir = os.path.join(docdir, subdir)
         path = os.path.join(docdir, topic + b".txt")