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keydata= mQENBF+pf4UBCAC6vjkWLSAsQpe8YIGKLQzNOJx/IjGtCdFF8uzmO5jmME+SD8ROuJN+t5KXVw58 uzu75EFD0vHTY9e+udJ2gkpuy0NnzkFcbumdLLo2ERKCoSctZZRhzKXI5z5cHxCqW0B2ygHRrRLt oNlGID7bAgcgSViT1ptGqTXO7zGVu4Airok7dNzcPtHgns8GlR5YAFX0TvE6oGd0l2VPghNeVJKJ OjrbfhoDxl3ucFpqbqMH8z9HTLDOFpz8UaYYUdJMi3xX6vwTZxI2sM2RRVLUpZyllAkSMI4lln1O OgazM/62DJUs/rKIHKBnF6h3/qsJUjUYXaAHbrXY26mWllAd536lABEBAAG0I0VsaSBaYXJldHNr aWkgKGVsaXopIDxlbGl6QGdudS5vcmc+iQE4BBMBAgAiBQJfqX+FAhsDBgsJCAcDAgYVCAIJCgsE FgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRCRwSYvAeuNOYUQB/4/iIKKOG45ijNaRoTvmJJZMvj1S07WQxEm7c5SHEeE QbLOAxB9vESOV7sLueuN3oqEndtzyYt4x1WTSBmHFF7h5fcCMjBs41siOIp5Sj/xD0Bvaa0IKGCR SZ7PAo8Mq3wgajXpTpn9vxE2PmtzA8KdEE0K1+f9pVAfOpUIcCl44rIxLUW352XG0y7iz6c/O6LB 1deOKMiKFctKO7pBti1dJEm1ImewLH3H8uTbwspLOs3EB8xhsESxmTidnze68HX2jt+2EeMgCdki NU+LWbexQZPfIS7+ZmE06ll0v6+Jy7ZdTkCCRypKWTnW7pIFsq/p4kybV8O/kHSV6B4vvQBfuQEN BF 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:207121 Archived-At: On May 24, 2021 11:58:54 AM GMT+03:00, Jonas Bernoulli = wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > >> [Add lm-maintainers and make lm-maintainer obsolete=2E] >=20 > The reason why I want to deprecate lm-maintainer is that this informs > users of that function that some packages may have more than one > maintainer and that it is now possible and (I dare say) encouraged to > acknowledge them all=2E A NEWS entry will do this job nicely, IMO=2E > Sure adding a note to lm-maintainer technically accomplishes the same, > but once one has started using lm-maintainer, then one doesn't > periodically go back to see whether a new notes have been added to its > doc-string=2E But something like this would do the trick of guiding the > attention towards the extended functionality and its updated > documentation: >=20 > In package-build--desc-from-library: > lib/package-build/package-build=2Eel:516:26: Warning: =E2=80=98lm-mainta= iner=E2=80=99 is > an > obsolete function (as of 28=2E1); use =E2=80=98lm-maintainers=E2= =80=99 instead=2E >=20 > Yes, there is nothing wrong with ignoring all but the first maintainer > (except of course, not properly attributing the contributions of the > others as they choose to present it), but it seems to me that having > to: >=20 > - (lm-maintainer) > + (car (lm-maintainers)) >=20 > is perfectly acceptable in cases where only "the" maintainer can be > mentioned because there is not enough room to display the names of all > maintainers=2E (So it is still a good idea to list the primus inter > pares > maintainer first=2E) I think this warning will be a gratuitous annoyance in enough legitimate u= se cases to make the complaints serious=2E If it's okay to take the 'car' = of a list, then it should also be okay to call a function which does just t= hat=2E It's not like lm-maintainers returns an opaque object=2E Again, if the others are fine with the deprecation, I will yield=2E