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[PATCH] Pretiffy package-menu

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From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 78794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, philipk <at> posteo.net
Subject: Re: bug#78794: [PATCH] Pretiffy package-menu
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:22:17 -0600

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:


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>> Fine, then I've removed the option/feature here, to avoid making this
>> thread longer.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Byte-compiling this brings up the following warning:
>
>     ELC      emacs-lisp/package.elc
>
>   In package-menu-mode:
>   emacs-lisp/package.el:3242:16: Warning: reference to free variable `package-menu-mode-line-format'

Thanks I've fixed it.

> Also, I have no packages installed, but the mode line says "New: 0",
> with the help-echo saying "Total number of new packages available".
> This is confusing; perhaps we need to use a different word instead of
> "New"?

How about using "Newest available"?

I also made that part only appear when there are new packages in package
menu.

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