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definition automatically. Avoid constructing the names in the macro
itself, since that would confuse these tools.
-@item
-Please keep the names of your Emacs Lisp source files to 13 characters
-or less. This way, if the files are compiled, the compiled files' names
-will be 14 characters or less, which is short enough to fit on all kinds
-of Unix systems.
-
@item
In some other systems there is a convention of choosing variable names
that begin and end with @samp{*}. We don't use that convention in Emacs
This field is important; it's how people will find your package when
they're looking for things by topic area. To separate the keywords, you
can use spaces, commas, or both.
+
+@item Package-Version
+If @samp{Version} is not suitable for use by the package manager, then
+a package can define @samp{Package-Version}; it will be used instead.
+This is handy if @samp{Version} is an RCS id or something else that
+cannot be parsed by @code{version-to-list}. @xref{Packaging Basics}.
+
+@item Package-Requires
+If this exists, it names packages on which the current package depends
+for proper operation. @xref{Packaging Basics}. This is used by the
+package manager both at download time (to ensure that a complete set
+of packages is downloaded) and at activation time (to ensure that a
+package is activated if and only if all its dependencies have been).
+
+Its format is a list of lists. The @code{car} of each sub-list is the
+name of a package, as a symbol. The @code{cadr} of each sub-list is
+the minimum acceptable version number, as a string. For instance:
+
+@smallexample
+;; Package-Requires: ((gnus "1.0") (bubbles "2.7.2"))
+@end smallexample
+
+The package code automatically defines a package named @samp{emacs}
+with the version number of the currently running Emacs. This can be
+used to require a minimal version of Emacs for a package.
@end table
Just about every Lisp library ought to have the @samp{Author} and
Its purpose is to enable people to detect truncated versions of the file
from the lack of a footer line.
@end table
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