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[debbugs-tracker] bug#30571: closed (URL vs Homepage in package headers)


From: GNU bug Tracking System
Subject: [debbugs-tracker] bug#30571: closed (URL vs Homepage in package headers)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:59:02 +0000

Your message dated Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:58:35 +0200
with message-id <address@hidden>
and subject line Re: bug#30571: [PATCH] Document that URL and Homepage package 
headers are interchangeable.
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #30571,
regarding URL vs Homepage in package headers
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: URL vs Homepage in package headers Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:48:01 +0000 (GMT) User-agent: Alpine 2.21 (LFD 202 2017-01-01)
The Emacs Lisp manual at 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Simple-Packages.html#Simple-Packages
 gives an example of a package library headers.  This example includes a URL 
line.  Later, the reader is directed to 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Library-Headers.html#Library-Headers
 for more information about the available headers.  This second page makes no 
mention of the URL line, and instead describes a Homepage line.

Surveying the Emacs source code, it turns out that both URL and Homepage are 
used, although Homepage is more popular.

Should one of URL and Homepage be preferred to the other?  Are they aliases?  
Is one of these a typo?

--
Peter Oliver



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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#30571: [PATCH] Document that URL and Homepage package headers are interchangeable. Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:58:35 +0200
> From: Peter Oliver <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue,  6 Mar 2018 14:52:14 +0000
> Cc: Peter Oliver <address@hidden>
> 
> * doc/lispref/tips.texi:
> URL is an alias for Homepage.

Thanks, fixed.


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