Re: [ELPA] New package c-intro-and-ref -- was Re: Proposal: Include C Manual from RMS in Emacs git, and/or release

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 21:58:39 +0700
> 
> On 06/12/2024 01:47, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> > It would also make sense to make the Emacs manuals available for easy
> > download, as distributions like Debian do not include these by default.
> 
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html>
> has a link to emacs.info.gz, there is no need to download whole source 
> tarball. A couple of issues:
> - this page does not contain "../" link to other manuals

Why should it?

> - only one release is available (so "Updated: $Date: 2016/06/20 13:37:40 
> $" might be confusing) while Emacs-28 is available from Debian stable 
> repositories.

When a new major release of Emacs happens, we produce the manuals for
that release and update the manuals in the "webpages" repository.
This then triggers the update of the Web page.  We never provided more
than the last major release's manuals from that place.  If someone
wants to work on the scripts used to do this such that they support
leaving the previous manuals (in some properly named directory)
instead of overwriting them, you can find the scripts in the admin/
directory.

> I still think that it is easier to install the emacs-common-non-dfsg 
> package than to download info files from some other source.

The fact that the Emacs manuals are available from the GNU
Documentation site doesn't prevent anyone from using other distros.
Each one should do it in the way that is the most convenient for them.
The important point is that the manuals are "available for easy
download" in more ways than one.