Note that the Packaging sub-nodes are mostly for maintainers

* doc/lispref/package.texi (Packaging): Note that the information
is mostly for ELPA maintainers (bug#50825).

diff --git a/doc/lispref/package.texi b/doc/lispref/package.texi
index 9c033fe3df88e0f65e050b4c8035be24c93d996c..aeb455bb25f0e6c210905342703d7551b41ef35e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/lispref/package.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/package.texi
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ put it in a @dfn{package archive} for others to download.
 @xref{Packages,,, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}, for a description of
 user-level features of the packaging system.
 
+  These sections are mostly directed towards package archive
+maintainers---much of this information is not relevant for package
+authors (i.e., people who write code that will be distributed via
+these archives).
+
 @menu
 * Packaging Basics::        The basic concepts of Emacs Lisp packages.
 * Simple Packages::         How to package a single .el file.