Re: [elpa] master 89981d9 1/2: * README: Expand instructions

[Artur Malabarba]

I'll change that back.
BTW, since (lm-maintainer) uses the author as a fallback, am I correct
to assume that Elpa does the same?

2015-10-14 14:24 GMT+01:00 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
>> -The file needs to follow the usual coding conventions (most importantly
>> -start with ";;; <file> --- <description>") and have a "Version:" and
>> -"Maintainer:" pseudo-header.
>> +The file needs to follow the usual coding conventions (most
>> +importantly start with ";;; <file> --- <description>") as well as the
>> +package headers required by package.el (see the "Format" subsection
>> +below).
>
> I think this isn't quite right:
> - package.el does not require any package headers in general, whereas we
>   always require them, even for multi-file packages (because we always
>   auto-generate the *-pkg.el file).
> - AFAIK package.el does not require (or even pay attention to)
>   a "Maintainer:" header, but we do.
>
>
>         Stefan