Subject: bug#55388: 28.1; New libraries that neither belong to a package nor provide a feature

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:58:58 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hmm... smie.el, syntax.el, and tabulated-list.el do `provide`
> themselves, AFAICT.  Indeed it seems to be missing from `testcover.el`.

Yup.  I've now added one.

>> Should they have such a header as well?
> [...]
>> It seems like it's not consistent.  What do we use such a header for?
>
> IIRC the question is whether we want to present these files as "a
> package" or as "a file part of some other package" in things like
> the finder.

So somebody should go through all the files that lack a package: and see
if they feel it belongs in some package?

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