Subject: bug#13291: closed (Re: bug#13291: The package description buffer needs an URL button)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 03:46:02 +0000

Your bug report

#13291: The package description buffer needs an URL button

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#13291: The package description buffer needs an URL button
From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
To: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 06:45:36 +0300
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On 03.10.2013 16:46, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> That's too bad, I'd rather not reimplement the alist-to-plist and
>> plist-to-alist code from package.el.
>
> You can copy&paste it.

Okay, done, thanks for the reality check.

Patch installed, now let's see how it works live.

Subject: The package description buffer needs an URL button
From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:39:19 +0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

We can get the addresses from the semi-standard URL header, it's 
mentioned on these two pages, so at least some people are using it:

http://emacswiki.org/emacs/AutomaticFileHeaders
http://marmalade-repo.org/doc-files/package.5.html#SINGLE-FILE-PACKAGES

Plus, when the header's absent, the package repository can try to add 
the field automatically. Melpa can derive it from the recipe settings, 
and GNU Elpa can at least show links to the repository browser.
Or maybe to the pages at elpa.gnu.org. They basically contain the same 
information as the description buffer, though, so probably not.

Also see https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa/issues/424.

Any opposing opinions?

--Dmitry