Re: [elpa] externals/auctex f124fe7d28: Release GNU AUCTeX 14.0.3

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> Because back then, `elpa.gnu.org` was not able to generate them.
>>> Nowadays, we could use
>>>
>>>     :doc "doc/auctex.texi"
>>>
>>> in the spec instead.
>>
>> Can :doc be a list?  Because there's also preview-latex.texi.
>
> Yes.
>
>> Does that mean the ELPA devel package could be built from our master
>> branch always reflecting that and the normal package, too, after version
>> bumps?
>
> Almost.
>
>> Well, at least in theory after adding a Version header and somehow
>> setting the version when generating auctex.el from auctex.el.in?
>
> That's right: we still need the `auctex.el` file to be in Git and to
> contain the `Version:` thingy.

Another idea might be to have a separate :main-file for versioning, if
there is an advantage in building auctex.el while preparing the package.

>
>         Stefan