From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#62893: 30.0.50; ELPA recipes with broken :url property values Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:13:53 +0000 Message-ID: <87sfcx3efy.fsf@posteo.net> References: <875y9vw6xb.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40201"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 62893@debbugs.gnu.org To: No Wayman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 18 08:14:20 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1poebb-000AHo-99 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:14:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1poebM-0004m1-I6; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 02:14:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1poebK-0004lH-Vc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 02:14:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1poebK-00067l-Nd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 02:14:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1poebK-0006Ti-8w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 02:14:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Philip Kaludercic Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:14:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 62893 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 62893-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B62893.168179841324859 (code B ref 62893); Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:14:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 62893) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Apr 2023 06:13:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57524 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1poear-0006St-2N for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 02:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:41933) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1poeao-0006Sc-0L for 62893@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 02:13:31 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [185.67.36.169]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7BD2240321 for <62893@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:13:23 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1681798403; bh=+nJjr6xQE/+PY5DuSZYlHHRlq0gL8BRZlX7nhQtIaAw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Autocrypt:Date:From; b=pavIaTw7o4dA5c7GElCtvlIsA/v5GaNewBG9b8XI55+fUPfy3G3JKe/zteT4P9XuZ ERCGbxnzZ339UBQr2HK1Ie4XKwu7U8320kWm1R8TFtA39MTHySCjasSS1G+rI4+jH6 WiDPOdLPbmZEcJJndoPUOvDJv3UKt5iEIODl4Gsg+XowmG1mhdCDnBDOWmO6AS7cj0 xQfy+KXJjl/z04OcTf6S+z9t/fs7Jow+rbSGw+8LIFRnQUGgpa08L+UP+Vee854ea3 kSl+4/roNTgU45fVlYsMw0l4kuJBIeJvGD+L2s/go2YSlP0cFBytvLv8uvjLh5a+nS x9ZIBtnY5pNOQ== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 4Q0trz0w9Xz6tvp; Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:13:22 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <875y9vw6xb.fsf@gmail.com> (No Wayman's message of "Sun, 16 Apr 2023 22:53:12 -0400") Autocrypt: addr=philipk@posteo.net; keydata= mDMEZBBQQhYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAHJuofBrfqFh12uQu0Yi7mrl525F28eTmwUDflFNmdui0QlBo aWxpcCBLYWx1ZGVyY2ljIChnZW5lcmF0ZWQgYnkgYXV0b2NyeXB0LmVsKSA8cGhpbGlwa0Bwb3N0 ZW8ubmV0PoiWBBMWCAA+FiEEDg7HY17ghYlni8XN8xYDWXahwukFAmQQUEICGwMFCQHhM4AFCwkI BwIGFQoJCAsCBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQ8xYDWXahwulikAEA77hloUiSrXgFkUVJhlKBpLCHUjA0 mWZ9j9w5d08+jVwBAK6c4iGP7j+/PhbkxaEKa4V3MzIl7zJkcNNjHCXmvFcEuDgEZBBQQhIKKwYB BAGXVQEFAQEHQI5NLiLRjZy3OfSt1dhCmFyn+fN/QKELUYQetiaoe+MMAwEIB4h+BBgWCAAmFiEE Dg7HY17ghYlni8XN8xYDWXahwukFAmQQUEICGwwFCQHhM4AACgkQ8xYDWXahwukm+wEA8cml4JpK NeAu65rg+auKrPOP6TP/4YWRCTIvuYDm0joBALw98AMz7/qMHvSCeU/hw9PL6u6R2EScxtpKnWof z4oM X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:260205 Archived-At: No Wayman writes: > In elpa-packages, is there a reason why we keep the :url property for > packages for which > the upstream no longer exists? e.g. any package :url pointing to > "http://www.dr-quibit.org/git/predictive.git"? > > I ask because I'm writing GNU/NonGNU ELPA support for Elpaca. > I'd like to avoid hard-coding an exception for that URL when > generating package recipes. > Would a patch changing those :url values to nil be accepted? > If so, should the old URL be preserved in a comment above each > package? Elpa-admin.el fails with a message from "git fetch", which makes sense if a repository is temporarily not available. What I think would make sense here would be to first check what repositories are failing and then consider if setting the :url to nil would make sense or if it has just moved somewhere else. E.g. in this case it seems that there has been an issue with the hosting provider, and Toby has been (very) slowly porting his packages over to Gitlab: https://dr-qubit.org/undo-tree.html#orgffcc37e.