From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#19299: 25.0.50; "Contributing" button in *About GNU Emacs* no longer works Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:12:55 +0200 Message-ID: <837fy0wv2w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <21636.57684.129193.880930@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <85r3w9adfj.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87vbllvfhq.fsf@gmail.com> <83tx14x06p.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418148809 14995 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 18:13:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 18:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: flexibeast@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 19:13:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyPHi-0002Tz-HA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:13:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41769 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyPHi-0006BL-1d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:13:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51583) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyPHZ-00062p-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:13:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyPHS-0006Ad-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:13:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:38818) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyPHS-0006AN-9m; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:13:02 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGB00H00TZ5KR00@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:05:14 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGB00HITU8QDG10@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:05:14 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179584 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: flexibeast@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:55:59 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > You mean, we shouldn't be concerned that this information will not be > > available to users of a popular platform? > > No, that's neither what I mean nor what the situation would be. > I meant that we should not let how Debian choose to split their packages > (and repositories) influence where we put Emacs information. Now I'm confused. If we put this in the manual, then Debian users will not see it. If we don't want that to happen, we should keep this on a separate file, not in the manual. Suppose we decide the latter: does this mean our decision was influenced by how Debian split their packages? What am I missing?