From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug#19299: 25.0.50; "Contributing" button in *About GNU Emacs* no longer works Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:34:02 -0600 Message-ID: <85y4qf7ss5.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <21636.57684.129193.880930@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <85r3w9adfj.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87vbllvfhq.fsf@gmail.com> <83tx14x06p.fsf@gnu.org> <837fy0wv2w.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418204117 11740 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2014 09:35:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:35:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 10:35:11 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 1Xydfn-0004PC-M8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:35:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44180 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xydfm-000789-8d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:35:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xydf8-0006ou-ET for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:34:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xydf1-0006PH-Ox for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:34:26 -0500 Original-Received: from gproxy1-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([69.89.25.95]:48654) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xydf1-0006P6-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 04:34:19 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 23041 invoked by uid 0); 10 Dec 2014 09:34:16 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO cmgw3) (10.0.90.84) by gproxy1.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 2014 09:34:16 -0000 Original-Received: from host114.hostmonster.com ([74.220.207.114]) by cmgw3 with id RlaA1p00T2UdiVW01laDxY; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 02:34:16 -0700 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=W++rC3mk c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:117 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:17 a=DsvgjBjRAAAA:8 a=f5113yIGAAAA:8 a=fNEgcOh0sVsA:10 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=hEr_IkYJT6EA:10 a=jrwKn-8xaegA:10 a=A92cGCtB03wA:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=7JOGVxIDe4Uvl3Z0YpoA:9 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] (port=56799 helo=TAKVER) by host114.hostmonster.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Xydes-00061X-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 02:34:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: <837fy0wv2w.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:12:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) X-Identified-User: {2442:host114.hostmonster.com:stephele:stephe-leake.org} {sentby:smtp auth 70.94.38.149 authed with stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org} X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 69.89.25.95 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:179639 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> 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. Unless they take the extra steps of adding 'non-free' to their distribution list, and installing the Emacs documentation. I think this is an important issue. Remember, the point of this file is to encourage Emacs users to contribute bug reports/patches/etc to Emacs; we want it to be easily available to everyone. -- -- Stephe