Re: README used by NonGNU packages "remotely" even though it's ignored

[Daniel Semyonov <daniel@dsemy.com>]

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>>>>> Philip Kaludercic writes:

    > Ignored files specify what files should not be added to the
    > package tarball.

    > See [0].  By default the README file is used.  If you prefer to,
    > it is possible to configure using the commentary section.

    > [0]
    > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/README?h=elpa-admin#n132,

Thanks, I previously read the first few paragraphs of the elpa-admin
README and made the (incorrect) assumption that it wasn't very relevant
to me as a package author.

Attached is a patch updating my packages to use the commentary.


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From 7be993e60bdc7c69a8dd8444f0bca6e5c108957f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Semyonov <daniel@dsemy.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 00:54:29 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] * elpa-packages (vcomplete, swsw): Use commentary for
 ':readme'

---
 elpa-packages | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/elpa-packages b/elpa-packages
index 034ed41c01..a6bf3ffd8f 100644
--- a/elpa-packages
+++ b/elpa-packages
@@ -531,6 +531,7 @@
   :ignored-files ("COPYING" "scripts" "test" "Eldev" "Makefile"))
 
  ("swsw"		:url "https://git.sr.ht/~dsemy/swsw"
+  :readme ignore
   :doc "swsw.texi"
   :news "NEWS")
 
@@ -563,6 +564,7 @@
  ("vc-fossil"		:url "https://github.com/venks1/emacs-fossil")
 
  ("vcomplete"		:url "https://git.sr.ht/~dsemy/vcomplete"
+  :readme ignore
   :doc "vcomplete.texi"
   :news "NEWS")
 
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