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[PATCH] Pretiffy package-menu

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Message #47 received at 78794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 78794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, philipk <at> posteo.net
Subject: Re: bug#78794: [PATCH] Pretiffy package-menu
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:31:17 +0300

> From: Elijah Gabe Pérez <eg642616 <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 78794 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  philipk <at> posteo.net
> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:13:00 -0600
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Can you explain what you meant by "New" here?  Then I might be able to
> > suggest a more clear terminology.
> 
> "New" indicates how many packages with the status of "new" are in
> package menu, according to manual:
> 
>   Equivalent to ‘available’, except that the package became newly
>   available on the package archive after your last invocation of M-x
>   list-packages.

Alas, this doesn't explain what is meant by "new".  What are the
conditions for a package to have the "new" status in the menu?  The
'available' status is documented as

  ‘available’
       The package is not installed, but can be downloaded and installed
       from the package archive.

which I interpret as meaning the package is not installed and can be
installed.  I cannot understand what "new" means in that case, since
what shows the packages is the list-packages command.  Maybe you could
give an example of when a package that will be shown as "new"?

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