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: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:06:16 -0600 Message-ID: <85vblladqf.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <21636.57684.129193.880930@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418083622 25051 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 00:07:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 00:07:02 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 01:06:51 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 1Xy8KH-0003QD-7G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:06:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36800 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8KG-0003MN-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:06:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8K4-00039m-El for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:06:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8Jx-0000gR-Po for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:06:36 -0500 Original-Received: from gproxy1-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([69.89.25.95]:48259) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8Jx-0000gL-Iw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:06:29 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 17838 invoked by uid 0); 9 Dec 2014 00:06:27 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO cmgw3) (10.0.90.84) by gproxy1.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2014 00:06:27 -0000 Original-Received: from host114.hostmonster.com ([74.220.207.114]) by cmgw3 with id RC6Q1p00E2UdiVW01C6TTG; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:06:27 -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=khQqXG6iALCSuqZ9kuEA:9 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] (port=54771 helo=TAKVER) by host114.hostmonster.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy8Jr-0004q1-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:06:24 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:01:52 -0500") 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:179502 Archived-At: This is being discussed on emacs-devel, so I'm copying this there. Glenn Morris writes: > Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> In master, the CONTRIBUTE file was recently moved (back) from etc/ to >> the top-level dir. This breaks the corresponding button in the about >> page. To reproduce, type "M-x about-emacs RET" and then press the >> "Contributing" button: >> >> view-file: /usr/share/emacs/25.0.50/etc/CONTRIBUTE does not exist >> >>>>From its new location, the file won't even be installed any more. >> >> (Note: The file had been moved from top-level to etc in 2007.) > > Yes, this file was moved into etc from top-level specifically so it > would be part of the installed Emacs. Personally I don't think that > moving it out again makes much sense, but if people really want to do > that, it needs more work. It needs to be in the installed Emacs, so a > special install rule will need to be written. The doc references that > refer to it being in the etc/ directory (grep will find these) will need > to be rewritten to account for it being in different places in installed > and uninstalled Emacs. Personally I think it would be a lot simpler to > move it back where it was and put a stub CONTRIBUTE at top-level that > just says "see etc/CONTRIBUTE". (But again, personally I don't think > this makes much sense.) I did not realize there was a link to etc/CONTRIBUTE in About. -- -- Stephe