From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Misleading messages about new versions Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:57:57 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30442"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 12 05:04:01 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1nIjdf-0007fj-7g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2022 05:03:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41796 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nIjdd-0007zz-Kb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2022 23:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nIjXp-0002lH-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=51134 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nIjXp-0002CH-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:57:57 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:Subject:To:From:mime-version:in-reply-to: references; bh=O06jSPaEUcyvEiciHXsyiQlgRgVcJe4qdmkHXS8wye0=; b=rNn6RQCJIzr0BX 4z4fCGCtDrFQ/s59BoxYXCEfDLgF9ytQygDLX2MHOah/1RH/RRulices3G+otCwvv6Ct0wlnBvYHo gz/+DwJDytiX7v6BJth5lU8SLKKld8XCUGqNJ3IeSngzQ7x1IlEtK/NdnGjEGz+kBxPTjLwKu1z5n VWVfGksSMHWqHFS7GA2B7HQLSORx1a2p9ya6hVCdJ6NkWE9FQgR7iXMg5KIy5UFonniscmK5lfqZZ YVKF9lqk4acnt9zUrE48ZH3lwWBy8AfxgQx2YDndEe13HWq5rf4JWSF7UJSOIcuk/36FNjTb/44hW 2mhRx6DxNL8TGh9yoyXw==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nIjXp-0005ki-5o; Fri, 11 Feb 2022 22:57:57 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286175 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I just got the message below. I suspect it announces the release of a new version, but the wording gives that so much importance that it is more befitting a new package than a new version. If it said There is a new version of Soap-Client, version 3.1.3 in GNU ELPA. it would avoid giving the wrong impression. From: ELPA update To: gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org Subject: [GNU ELPA] Soap-Client version 3.1.3 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 05:03:33 -0500 Message-ID: <85v8xn2g3u.fsf@elpa.gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cc: Alexandru Harsanyi Version 3.1.3 of package Soap-Client has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x package-list RET. Soap-Client describes itself as: Access SOAP web services More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/soap-client.html -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)