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

[Max Nikulin]

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
- 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.

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

At first I decided that you statement is related to applications other 
than Emacs as well, so I counted info files

    dpkg -S info.gz | wc -l
    101

and packages

    dpkg -S info.gz | cut -d : -f 1 | sort -u | wc -l
    28

on a machine with relatively low count of applications. It is up to 
package maintainer to build and ship info docs.