From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 09:46:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83fsyej6bc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20210522202519.32549-1-jonas@bernoul.li> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="38853"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 48592@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 23 08:47:17 2021 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 1lkhtN-0009w4-5c for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 08:47:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40032 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkhtM-0000GS-8d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:47:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38170) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkht9-0000GE-5J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57193) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkht7-00075C-RE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:47:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lkht7-0000w4-Oo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:47:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 06:47:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 48592 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 48592-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B48592.16217523983562 (code B ref 48592); Sun, 23 May 2021 06:47:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 48592) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 May 2021 06:46:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40506 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lkhsj-0000vO-P4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:46:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44406) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lkhsf-0000v8-UZ for 48592@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54264) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkhsZ-0006vK-SN; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:46:28 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1947 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lkhsZ-0002X4-FF; Sun, 23 May 2021 02:46:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20210522202519.32549-1-jonas@bernoul.li> (message from Jonas Bernoulli on Sat, 22 May 2021 22:25:19 +0200) 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:207073 Archived-At: > From: Jonas Bernoulli > Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 22:25:19 +0200 > > It was already possible to specify multiple authors using the "Author" > header, but the same was not possible for maintainers. Because some > packages have multiple maintainers, which cannot or don't want to be > subsumed under some organisation's name, this adds support for > specifying multiple maintainers as well. > > this also adds support for using "Authors" and "Maintainers" as the > names of the header fields instead of just the singular forms. Why do we need these additions? Couldn't we keep using Author and Maintainer? Having both variants immediately begs the question which is preferable and why, arguments about style, and other bikeshedding. Unless there's a good reason for adding new headings, I'd prefer to make do with what we already have. Thanks.