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bug#62524: Support displaying all package maintainers
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Jonas Bernoulli |
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bug#62524: Support displaying all package maintainers |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:50:49 +0200 |
[ I am re-sending this message because the MDS refused to deliver
the previous iteration.
Stefan, your reply contained a header "Cc: ??@debbugs.gnu.org". ]
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Even once all ELPAs have been updated to include `:maintainers', they
>> have to continue to also include `:maintainer', for the benefit of
>> older versions of this function / package.el / Emacs.
>
> We could drop `:maintainer` within a few years, tho: this info is not
> super-important and it would impact only users of older Emacsen.
That's the plan.
>> To avoid this duplication, `package' would have to be distributed on
>> GNU ELPA as a "core" package.
>
> That still wouldn't help those users who didn't upgrade their built-in
> `package.el`.
I hope that we can eventually not only make Package available on GNU
Elpa, but also get users of older Emacs releases to update to that
version, see 87tty24ap2.fsf@bernoul.li
> Other than that: OK with me.
So should I go ahead and install this now (on master, I assume)?
Once that is done, I'll update the elpa-admin equivalent for Melpa. I
plan to only include :maintainers in archive-contents if there actually
are multiple maintainers. That way there is less duplicated data, and
I recommend you do the same in elpa-admin.
Oh, and the comment you added to package-buffer-info in 4e6f98cd505ed56
is wrong; shall I just replace "single string" with "single cons-cell"?
Cheers,
Jonas
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