GNU bug report logs - #48592
[PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers

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Reported by: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>

Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 20:26:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 48592 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#48592: [PATCH 0/2] Support plural forms of Author and Maintainer library headers
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:24:58 +0200
Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li> 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.




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