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Mon, 24 May 2021 11:22:07 +0200 Importance: normal Sensitivity: Normal In-Reply-To: <87o8d0mrsh.fsf@bernoul.li> X-UI-Message-Type: mail X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:LHi3T4D0/SSlc++LZP0LERcGXsupmGOFMnKVMDvvmhYKT1qke9AVOXYl38NYqJkickjQp cbJ/fP7EB97sZrmcm2n9OqJtpWb5i6oOVqr2pIE/pNpYo5k74JeyGFD5vybm8d/sUUOzSNrDjYGK yL/jqtLEmhYjqRjup0Z1T6a5rz5UJTYF1QgUyMR64eTBxEA1JlgJ+AlQ9IkxtNpq04pIO3dlm0FU EjS21uFP3NiZHbP2g4IdyuNKwgKRXIK2qERNzGI9mBaet7J9En6zEvrGAPTA/EefBTCrewGvYEun rA= X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:obD5Vp8PYfo=:TjifUqa6JSwiuoNjCruR/e M7yXX1pGbhuEYm6xkaTSyHssBrXU2EIZUSZsMJQCL2Mv34i+XOphnBZ0c7wYNsk5ooo1J5hMl Anc5PN8025tQsn8uyGERCTQNGnV1iOGNsaIhAFx3OIpOYGsTbz4mhKSovAZfX0swhOUGuMlEC xpOdsFfIf5pONAp/BM/jp26Fafc8DZAv6P8pGI69NUkMi9VYBJIUWLq+FQ9tjR0GZ+ZI0pxY/ KxtQW6mnj1uJkLdgj1D8gzqX0EKoJtf5+rCUkqejwsSZOMmWZy23DscnhMghPgZXfhu24/CMD Mc0yAzRy24Q3g6SXrM1e5ZouXe9aaIWCnj8IRHLUyGFE/1yZTosAhTumobv4Ht+hhtIcqRoeh ZiS+Ug9zaAWppBl0FC0YngdnnN1Z11KcRaGDDKTX9b7FEg3Pyk5+eU761boTQU2fvRVnWmvD5 kh6SNmNSYheMfofKUb1tcnGfp9JCqrL5J+ZSLPJCRNqpJCuCUWlft9swKkhWbpaBaN/DAoj9a +Fp2MS2B2CNDnR6xg6of4WTf9UiOTs+1XIJMpDetQE1m3ZI2z2AMsOPhGfdsLcig7eAzJKTjX vPLlNuF/QjHyyzkSXrpiZQPKkS7vZ2CGSj8yY+h++C8EdMxe6EFOpi+SP5FwTbKUPdGoezhjf 9bonfX7qs5Ttt8KPn6d2KidRqHFzRiyPRWeIJIazE/2y+aO1C6gxazYF3themk1ko7cSwhynP OV/BcacEovc4ivKqjdRsVLyHwIsaWMUqGHFN4mdv5f++j3T6JkfPzISl6jxknyCwni35cbia 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:207120 Archived-At: > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2021 at 8:58 PM > From: "Jonas Bernoulli" > To: "Eli Zaretskii" , "Michael Albinus" > Cc: "Lars Ingebrigtsen" , 48592@debbugs=2Egnu=2Eorg > Subject: bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maint= ainer library headers > > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > >> [Add lm-maintainers and make lm-maintainer obsolete=2E] >=20 > > Fine by me as well, but: >=20 > > =2E I see no reason to deprecate lm-maintainer: there's nothing wrong > > with wanting to obtain the first name in the list; > > > > =2E Please describe in the doc string of lm-maintainer what it does wh= en > > there's more than one=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 One can extract that information from the code if history files are mainta= ined=2E In addition, you will find instances where contributors are unknown or the= ir contribution cannot be verified=2E If it is about two or three names, it = is not much of a problem=2E One can safely assume that lm-maintainer is one or m= ore=2E =20 > 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-main= tainer=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 par= es > maintainer first=2E) It is not beneficial to have long lists of contributor names in code=2E H= istorical details should be included in other files intended for that purpose=2E =20 > Cheers, > Jonas >=20 >=20 >=20 >