bug#59258: 28.2; [Emacs Manual] Available PDFs are outdated/obsolete

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, rafaelbeirigo@gmail.com,
>       59258@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:05:49 -0500
> 
>   > AFAIU, these are the manuals that the FSF sells in their shop.  I'd
>   > rather not delete them, because when they decide to print another
>   > edition,
> 
> It would be good for the maintainers to talk with the FSF about when
> to publish a new paper edition.

It's usually the other way around: when the FSF is about to publish a
new version of some Emacs manual, someone from the FSF contacts us and
asks to produce a specially-formatted PDF file.  They also show us the
colophon and the back-cover text and ask us to proof-read it for
factual mistakes; for example, the list of supported programming
languages and important features changes from edition to edition.

Because this happens once in a very long while, people tend to forget
what was done for previous printings, and that's why it is important
to keep the last printed book, so one could look inside and recollect
what was done and how.