* lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package--add-to-archive-contents):
Include already installed and built-in packages in
`package-archive-contents'.
(package-install): Don't include already installed packages in the
options on interactive invocation.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-compute-transaction):
Use `version-list-<=' to compare the requirement version against
the package version already to be installed. Update the error
message.
the docstring of functions advised before dumping.
* src/doc.c (store_function_docstring): Warn when we don't know where to
put a docstring.
(Fsubstitute_command_keys): Don't advertise the fact that
text-properties are dropped, since we think it's a bug that we'll fix
in 24.5.
Fixes: debbugs:16993
(advice--make-interactive-form): Use it to avoid (auto)loading function.
(advice--make-1, advice-add, advice-remove):
Remove braindead :advice-pending hack.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp-mode.el (lisp-mode-variables): Set
`comment-use-syntax' to t to avoid the unnecessary runtime check.
Set `comment-start-skip' to a simpler value that doesn't try to
check if the semicolon is escaped (this is handled by
`syntax-ppss' now).
* lisp/progmodes/scheme.el (scheme-mode-variables): Same.
They are now needed by eg the function `documentation' in some circumstances.
* lisp/help-fns.el (help-split-fundoc, help-add-fundoc-usage)
(help-function-arglist, help-make-usage): Move from here...
* lisp/help.el (help-split-fundoc, help-add-fundoc-usage)
(help-function-arglist, help-make-usage): ... to here.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.el (byte-compile-lambda): Do not load help-fns.
Fixes: debbugs:17001
(advice-add): Add a :advice--pending marker, so advice--make-1 knows
when the advice is pending.
(advice-remove): Remove this marker when not needed any more.
Ref: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00501.html
* lisp/obsolete/iswitchb.el: Move to obsolete/.
* lisp/simple.el (iswitchb-mode): Add manual autoloads to ease transition,
since obsolete/ is not scanned for autoloads.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/authors.el (authors-valid-file-names):
Add iswitchb.el.
* doc/emacs/ack.texi (Acknowledgments): No longer mention obsolete files.
* doc/misc/viper.texi (File and Buffer Handling): Prefer ido to iswitchb.
* etc/NEWS: Related edits.
* lisp/minibuffer.el (completion-table-merge): New function.
* lisp/emacs-lisp/lisp.el (lisp-completion-at-point): Use
`completion-table-merge' instead of `completion-table-in-turn'.
Fixes: debbugs:16604
* lisp/emacs-lisp/trace.el (trace--read-args, trace-function-foreground)
(trace-function-background): Doc fixes.
Commentary update for this package now using nadvice.el, not advice.el.
* etc/NEWS: Related edits.
