From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org
Cc: 19299@debbugs.gnu.org, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Subject: bug#19299: 25.0.50; "Contributing" button in *About GNU Emacs* no longer works
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:01:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l7egsaulbz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21636.57684.129193.880930@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Mon, 8 Dec 2014 00:23:00 +0100")
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.)
Please also note that ChangeLog entries are written in the present
tense ("deleted", "merged", "renamed", etc), start with capitals, and
end with full-stops.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-08 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-07 23:23 bug#19299: 25.0.50; "Contributing" button in *About GNU Emacs* no longer works Ulrich Mueller
2014-12-08 17:01 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-12-08 21:45 ` Glenn Morris
2014-12-09 0:12 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-09 0:21 ` Alexis
2014-12-09 4:43 ` Glenn Morris
2014-12-09 8:37 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-09 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-09 17:55 ` Glenn Morris
2014-12-09 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-10 9:34 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-10 16:18 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-10 17:15 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-15 8:39 ` Richard Stallman
2014-12-09 0:06 ` Stephen Leake
2014-12-24 13:56 ` bug#19299: 19299 fixed Stephen Leake
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