GNU bug report logs - #78844
30.1; feature request: public interface for querying builtin packages and versions

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xiyue Deng <manphiz <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:46:05 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 30.1

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

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Message #41 received at 78844 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Xiyue Deng <manphiz <at> gmail.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: 78844 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#78844: 30.1; feature request: public interface for querying
 builtin packages and versions
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 03:34:25 -0700
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Hi Sean,

Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name> writes:

> Hello Xiyue,
>
> Please add a NEWS entry

Added as a second patch.

> and see if these packages need documentation in the Elisp manual (they
> may or may not).
>

I don't seem to find any Elisp manual for package.el (there is one in
the Emacs manual but only has documents for user facing interfaces for
the package buffer).  But do let me know if there is.

> On Tue 24 Jun 2025 at 04:45pm -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:
>
>> * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-builtin-packages): Add
>> * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-builtin-package-version): Add
>
> Better would be:
>
> * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-builtin-packages)
> (package-builtin-package-version): New functions.
>

Updated the commit message accordingly in the first patch.

> -- 
> Sean Whitton

PTAL.

-- 
Regards,
Xiyue Deng
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