Re: [ELPA] New package: Ement (Matrix client)

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
>
>> Hi Stefan, et al,
>>
>> I'd like to submit my Matrix client package, Ement.el, to GNU ELPA.
>>
>> https://github.com/alphapapa/ement.el
>>
>> It's been my plan to do so eventually, and over the past nearly two
>> years of development, it's seen at least a few hundred users install
>> and use it regularly.  It's also packaged in GNU Guix and in Nix (and
>> having it in GNU ELPA will simplify their packaging work as well).  I
>> use it every day, and there are no major known bugs, so it seems like
>> a good time to submit it.  I have plans for further development as
>> well, but they need not hold back publishing on ELPA.
>
> Glad to see the package is ready!
>
>> Please see the attached patch to elpa-packages.
>
> For some reason ELPA is complaining about missing copyright notices in
> my checkout:
>
> $ make build/ement
> emacs --no-site-lisp --batch -l /home/philip/Source/elpa/admin/elpa-admin.el	\
>          -f elpaa-batch-make-one-package ement
> Not pushed to origin yet.  Not updating worktree
> ======== Building tarball archive-devel/ement-0.1.0.20220902.3605.tar...
> Problem with copyright notices:
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-taxy.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-structs.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-room.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-room-list.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-notify.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-macros.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-lib.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-api.el
> Build error for archive-devel/ement-0.1.0.20220902.3605.tar: (error "Abort")
> ######## Build of package archive-devel/ement-0.1.0.20220902.3605.tar FAILED!!
> ======== Building tarball archive/ement-0.1.tar...
> Problem with copyright notices:
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-taxy.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-structs.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-room.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-room-list.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-notify.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-macros.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-lib.el
> Missing copyright notice in ement/ement-api.el
> Build error for archive/ement-0.1.tar: (error "Abort")
> ######## Build of package archive/ement-0.1.tar FAILED!!
>
> I believe it is because the copyright should be assigned to "Free
> Software Foundation, Inc", not just "Free Software Foundation".

Another point, the repository seems to contain a "NOTES.org" symlink
that points to some file that doesn't exist in my checkout, and probably
won't exist either in the ELPA tarball.  Shouldn't the file therefore
also be added to .elpaignore?

>> Thanks,
>> Adam