bug#62813: 29.0.60; etc/AUTHORS listing README.md

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> tags 62813 notabug
> thanks
>
>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:32:14 +0000
>>
>> When viewing etc/AUTHORS, I see that a number of people have modified a
>> file "README.md" that is not to be found in emacs.git.  From what I see,
>> these people have frequently also changed eglot.git, which makes me
>> think that this is an issue with the import-merge of the Eglot
>> repository into emacs.git.  This seems like something that authors.el
>> should be made aware of.
>
> First, attributions in AUTHORS don't necessarily mention files that
> are physically present in the repository.  E.g., we don't want to
> ignore contributions to files that we at some point decided to remove
> from Emacs.
>
> In this case, it was my decision to tweak authors.el's databases so
> that contributions to files in merged packages, such as Eglot and
> use-package, will be reflected in AUTHORS even though the files to
> which they contributed were eventually deleted when the package was
> merged.  Where the stuff in those deleted files was moved to other
> files, which do exist, I tried to redirect the attributions to the
> existing files.  But where that was impossible or impractical, I saw
> no problem in having removed files referenced by AUTHORS.
>
> Eglot's README.md was deleted some time after Eglot was merged with
> Emacs, or maybe even before that, but the text in it is now largely in
> the Eglot manual, in some form or another.  So having these
> attributions in AUTHORS makes sense to me.
>
> This is not a bug.

Agreed.  I'm therefore closing this bug report.