Subject: Re: bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:24:58 +0200

Jonas Bernoulli <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Jonas,

>> I don't see any extremely compelling reason to deprecate it, either, but
>> `lm-maintainers' (paired with `lm-authors') makes sense, so perhaps it's
>> a better long-term solution to deprecate `lm-maintainer' (to emphasise
>> that both of these headers can contain lists of people).
>
> I've just pushed this.  (New function, deprecate old function, do NOT
> support use of plurals as header names.)

Perhaps it's worth to be mentioned in etc/NEWS?

>     Cheers,
>     Jonas

Best regards, Michael.