Subject: bug#59609: closed (Re: bug#59609: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Better advertise (Non-)GNU ELPA in emacs manual)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:44:02 +0000

Your bug report

#59609: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Better advertise (Non-)GNU ELPA in emacs manual

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

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Subject: Re: bug#59609: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Better advertise (Non-)GNU ELPA in emacs manual
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
To: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 07:43:15 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Version: 30.1

Richard Stallman <[email-masked]> writes:

> To make this cleader:
>
>   > +the Emacs developers and hosted by the GNU project.  @dfn{GNU ELPA}
>   > +contains packages that are available for use with Emacs, but are
>   > +distributed separately from Emacs itself.
>
> Let's use
>
>   > +the Emacs developers and hosted by the GNU project.  @dfn{GNU ELPA}
>   > +contains packages that we consider part of GNU Emacs, but that we
>   > +distribute separately from the core Emacs.

There were many suggestions in this thread.  I tried to get them all
into one patch, and pushed them to emacs-30 as commit 6701866be4d.

Feel free to make any appropriate tweaks or adjustments.

Subject: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Better advertise (Non-)GNU ELPA in emacs manual
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 05:44:17 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Severity: wishlist

See the attached patch, which advertises (Non-)GNU ELPA a bit more in
the manual.  This would help make those archives more well-known and
attractive to users and package developers.

Thoughts?
From a90b8e5174b6bda548c08d1ce1f11b65fc564e60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 14:39:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Advertise (Non-)GNU ELPA more

* doc/emacs/package.texi (Packages): Advertise (Non-)GNU ELPA
more.
---
 doc/emacs/package.texi | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/emacs/package.texi b/doc/emacs/package.texi
index cd4c113ae5..cdc5b3dbc8 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/package.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/package.texi
@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ Packages
 name of a package, and displays a help buffer describing the
 attributes of the package and the features that it implements.
 
-  By default, Emacs downloads packages from a package archive
-maintained by the Emacs developers and hosted by the GNU project.
+  By default, Emacs downloads packages from GNU ELPA
+(@url{https://elpa.gnu.org/}), a package archive maintained by the
+Emacs developers and hosted by the GNU project.  It also downloads
+packages from NonGNU ELPA (@url{https://elpa.nongnu.org/}).
 Optionally, you can also download packages from archives maintained by
 third parties.  @xref{Package Installation}.
 
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