Operation "Fat Emacs"

Congratulations on preparing the release Sean!

To not waste any time: As we had previously discussed, after the release
of Emacs 31 we wanted to start considering what is to be done about an
Emacs that bundles more ELPA packages.  Do you have any suggestions on
how to proceed here?

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Version 31.1 of Emacs, the extensible text editor, should now be
> available from your nearest GNU mirror:
>
>   https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-31.1.tar.gz
>   https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-31.1.tar.xz
>
> The tarballs are signed; you can get the PGP signature files at:
>
>   https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-31.1.tar.gz.sig
>   https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/emacs/emacs-31.1.tar.xz.sig
>
> You can choose a mirror explicitly from the list at:
>   https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
>
> Mirrors may take some time to update; the main GNU ftp server is at:
>   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> To verify that the tarball is intact, download both the .sig and
> the tarball, and run this command:
>
>   gpg --verify emacs-31.1.tar.gz.sig
>
> (and similarly for emacs-31.1.tar.xz if you download that format).
>
> If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
> run this command to import it:
>
>   gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-keys \
>     8DC2487E51ABDD90B5C4753F0F56D0553B6D411B
>
> Alternative keyservers include keyserver.ubuntu.com and
> keys.openpgp.org.
>
> You can also run sha256sum or sha512sum and confirm that these checksums
> match:
>
> SHA256  emacs-31.1.tar.gz
> 3cad7fd1466c0e24867df8d2609da3ac75abc90d7c4c0175e410e9be46d4092a
> SHA256  emacs-31.1.tar.xz
> 1da5790d9580c81932b5bf700633114468da7b3412d69faa767daebf974f4586
>
> SHA512  emacs-31.1.tar.gz
> 1d6e34a99367e1cdc2ab08ef7c073bbabda7cff21cda616c346591f507128df9437698fc74143ba46267a269c64148b18c2967de8f8ae0544322b68f0009acfa
> SHA512  emacs-31.1.tar.xz
> 25cb810d09eaaa58306f4c10f406466c424517657dd1c9db056dadb624f0bc33db58f3bcdf527d81e5059e492b81c237f164eb3997bf4357bd84c696537f6836
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> For a summary of changes in Emacs 31, see the etc/NEWS file in the
> tarball; you can view it from Emacs by typing 'C-h n', or by clicking
> Help->Emacs News from the menu bar.
>
> You can also browse NEWS on-line using this URL:
>
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=emacs-31
>
> For the complete list of changes and the people who made them, see the
> various ChangeLog files in the source distribution.  For a summary of
> all the people who have contributed to Emacs, see the etc/AUTHORS
> file.
>
> For more information about Emacs, see:
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs