Subject: bug#30571: closed (Re: bug#30571: [PATCH] Document that URL and Homepage package headers are interchangeable.)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:59:02 +0000

Your bug report

#30571: URL vs Homepage in package headers

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

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Subject: Re: bug#30571: [PATCH] Document that URL and Homepage package headers are interchangeable.
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Peter Oliver <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:58:35 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Peter Oliver <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue,  6 Mar 2018 14:52:14 +0000
> Cc: Peter Oliver <[email-masked]>
> 
> * doc/lispref/tips.texi:
> URL is an alias for Homepage.

Thanks, fixed.

Subject: URL vs Homepage in package headers
From: Peter Oliver <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:48:01 +0000 (GMT)
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The Emacs Lisp manual at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Simple-Packages.html#Simple-Packages gives an example of a package library headers.  This example includes a URL line.  Later, the reader is directed to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Library-Headers.html#Library-Headers for more information about the available headers.  This second page makes no mention of the URL line, and instead describes a Homepage line.

Surveying the Emacs source code, it turns out that both URL and Homepage are used, although Homepage is more popular.

Should one of URL and Homepage be preferred to the other?  Are they aliases?  Is one of these a typo?

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Peter Oliver