Subject: bug#41681: 27.0.91; Remove obsolete reference to the Emacs Lisp List?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 17:36:53 +0300

> From: Bastien <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 09:48:46 +0200
> 
> C-h C-e shows an info page explaining how to find extra packages.
> 
> This page contains a reference to the Emacs Lisp List:
> https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/sje30/emacs/ell.html
> 
> The list has not been updated since 2014 and many links are broken.

That command shows a section on our FAQ, so the FAQ needs to be fixed.

> See these 6 broken links among the 7 first entries:
> 
> http://www.davep.org/emacs/5x5.el
> http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/comp-e.html
> http://www.geocities.com/mkjunker/stuff.html#emacs
> http://sites.ugcs.caltech.edu/~shulman/pub/Main/Software/abc-mode.el
> http://compbio.uchsc.edu/Hunter/acldoc.el
> 
> I simply suggest to remove this link from the Emacs manual and to add
> it to emacswiki, if needed.

I don't want to trade our documentation for the wiki, because the
latter is not under our control, and the quality of the information
there cannot be guaranteed.  Why not simply fix our FAQ to be more
up-to-date?

Thanks.