bug#62751: 29.0.90; New libraries that still need to be assigned to packages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 06:11:28 -0700
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> 
> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
> 
> >> Do we have some way to list new additions to package--builtins?
> >
> > Run "make finder-data" and then look at the diff?
> 
> I installed the below patch on emacs-29 to take care of this part.
> 
> diff --git a/admin/make-tarball.txt b/admin/make-tarball.txt
> index 505d3469d3c..5704e8e8922 100644
> --- a/admin/make-tarball.txt
> +++ b/admin/make-tarball.txt
> @@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ Steps to take before starting on the first pretest
> in any release sequence:
>      You can use 'gnupload --delete' (see below for more gnupload details).
>      (We currently don't bother with this.)
> 
> +4.  Check that all new Lisp libraries belong to sensible packages.
> +    Run "make -C lisp finder-data" and check the diff of the generated
> +    file against the previously released Emacs version to see what has
> +    changed.
> +

This could benefit from some criteria for what is and isn't reasonable
in these diffs, or what to do with the differences.  Because otherwise
"check the diff" doesn't tell how to check it.

Thanks.