From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#52985: describe-package should show README instead of "Commentary" section Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:21:59 -0500 Message-ID: References: <874k66r9mo.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34720"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 52985@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 14 17:23:32 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n8PMS-0008nc-C4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:23:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51366 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n8PMR-0007dU-DY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:23:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50254) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n8PM2-0007V2-Q6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n8PLx-00084x-LU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:23:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n8PLx-0005bC-IG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:23:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:23:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 52985 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 52985-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B52985.164217733021444 (code B ref 52985); Fri, 14 Jan 2022 16:23:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 52985) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jan 2022 16:22:10 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37932 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n8PL7-0005Zo-SU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:22:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:32603) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1n8PL6-0005Za-4z for 52985@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:22:08 -0500 Original-Received: from pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 27DE24423EC; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:22:02 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg3.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id CD5854423E9; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:22:00 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1642177320; bh=HzySafnAUDfNwtOpmc+sg1Atmb+dSothZFfE4edO5DU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=azxbP0pzmeDmGdInqNj0JzebMErfpii+YJrDF4lKhFcaCQ9DuTrC1wwbiqpaCcfvI vL0txUeVm9Jz67TF84pjnP0F9MZ/G/3OIXr2BbxKMUosdiUVBCK51YUmd7bDALJtwH 6xOty59VYZq3D3MO8QAzofWmwkMyZVteOzDnOmHHYz+ps7UiOQ7tR0q4o8Z8rGNkBk t7YekdxA73l6hYIKMPcUBtJb4KRd5CvEct/oraImuWujecJZX3jWy/rPHoHQggBkem NCFv8Rc/OP+BxGBV8qelKzzBL5N2rJjrwwdMjfdBtUDQUSVMQCznJPdwXCJrlvRp0c PWLGcHFszwJ2w== Original-Received: from pastel (unknown [216.154.30.173]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9F87C120480; Fri, 14 Jan 2022 11:22:00 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <874k66r9mo.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:42:39 +0100") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:224219 Archived-At: Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-01-14 09:42:39] wrote: > Stefan Kangas writes: >> It would be more useful if `M-x describe-package' would show the README >> file than the "Commentary" section, for packages where such a file >> exists. > Makes sense to me. >> Perhaps we could even show the included images, somehow. > Yes, that would be nice. > I've added Stefan M to the CCs; perhaps he has some comments here. When preparing the tarball, the (Non)GNU ELPA scripts can be told whether to use the Commentary or a README file, and AFAIK that's the info that is then shown by `describe-package`. Currently the ELPA protocol only offers a plain text version for that info. We should probably improve this part of the protocol. Stefan