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24.3; package: doesn't say what archive a package comes from

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From: Samuel Bronson <naesten <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; package: doesn't say what archive a package comes from
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 12:11:35 -0400

Dear Emacs maintainers,

When I do `package-list-packages' and see a package with an intriguing
short description, I tend to hit RET on it, only to find that there's no
long description.

What I'm writing to complain about is this: package.el doesn't give me
*any clue* who to yell at for letting packages into their archive with
just a one-line description, without even so much as a link to a webpage
with more information about the package.  (Which, incidentally, always
leaves me wishing I could browse the package before installing it, but
that's not what I'm asking for here.)

So, um, could you PLEASE make it list the name and/or URL of the archive
in question in the *Help* buffer, at least when `package-archives' has
more than one entry?

(Note to any archive maintainers who are reading this: please consider
yourselves yelled at if you are guilty of this.)

In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2014-05-16 on babin, modified by Debian
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Message #10 received at 17725-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 17725-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17725: 24.3;
 package: doesn't say what archive a package comes from
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 13:13:56 -0400

Version: 24.4

Samuel Bronson wrote:

> So, um, could you PLEASE make it list the name and/or URL of the archive
> in question in the *Help* buffer, at least when `package-archives' has
> more than one entry?

This is already implemented for the next release.

See eg http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-24.3.91.tar.xz

> In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)

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