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URL vs Homepage in package headers

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
Subject: bug#30571: closed (Re: bug#30571: [PATCH] Document that URL and
 Homepage package headers are interchangeable.)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:59:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#30571: URL vs Homepage in package headers

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

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 30571 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
Cc: 30571-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, git <at> mavit.org.uk
Subject: Re: bug#30571: [PATCH] Document that URL and Homepage package headers
 are interchangeable.
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:58:35 +0200

> From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
> Date: Tue,  6 Mar 2018 14:52:14 +0000
> Cc: Peter Oliver <git <at> mavit.org.uk>
> 
> * doc/lispref/tips.texi:
> URL is an alias for Homepage.

Thanks, fixed.

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From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver <at> mavit.org.uk>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: URL vs Homepage in package headers
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:48:01 +0000 (GMT)

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

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