From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 19:09:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r1lml74t.fsf@collares.org> <87ft21qjiw.fsf@tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25546"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" , 46441@debbugs.gnu.org, Mauricio Collares To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 05 01:11:11 2021 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 1lTBtf-0006Xv-Pz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2021 01:11:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60534 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lTBte-0004f7-Ae for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 19:11:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lTBtW-0004ey-Fg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 19:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lTBtW-0008QP-7B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 19:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lTBtW-0003ev-0l for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 19:11:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 23:11:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46441 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 46441-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46441.161757780613990 (code B ref 46441); Sun, 04 Apr 2021 23:11:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46441) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Apr 2021 23:10:06 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36626 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lTBsb-0003dZ-MA for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 19:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:51961) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lTBsa-0003d3-PF for 46441@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2021 19:10:05 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 521711000CF; Sun, 4 Apr 2021 19:09:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id D5C20100006; Sun, 4 Apr 2021 19:09:57 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1617577797; bh=p1o+Sdh5kbdFp5GZEI27YRswCTo7b42fba/DcrBKhvM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=lkxo1xm81ivUanHoeqh7hpdvkNC4ZQKzF+TM/k+I1pgf5MKMs2SdWaf1CWosHY9nA k/8PjPrKpTsoX3+F5CjJcHd8a3TtXmErFl0DPR3YrWJyQXj9pfpQn+HJc833pNCpiN ITLH3FcRHPu6CXomelAWjX0QVK8K58EAQqZVLNlIyA7RhARXFC8WamuGcSAaHdXNlY ZDZ8qdGE2AYgg4WVepbKN2QgX4kaq2k5wFGR4ZecdNx7+YGr3fdKOkcXS53g55mGLQ FcXzx6ItFMNZAak23K/UTEs8qmoNUN39+k0ydslVFw5rIuj1hX/F1Jg/Q7RXxXVt5f osGjicwzLSyGw== Original-Received: from alfajor (104-222-126-84.cpe.teksavvy.com [104.222.126.84]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8DFBE120320; Sun, 4 Apr 2021 19:09:57 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Sat, 3 Apr 2021 20:00:51 -0500") 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:203573 Archived-At: >>>> Currently, there's no way to get a permanent link to a package version >>>> that happens to be the current one. >> >> FWIW, the situation is even worse because there's no way to get >> a permanent link at all: while we do keep some old versions, we don't >> keep them all. Currently, the limit is set at 20, meaning that we keep >> up to 20 old versions around per package, and once we hit that limit we >> start pruning the old versions according to a heuristic that intends to >> guess which versions are more important to keep. > > Why not say, in addition to the above: we never delete anything more > recent than N years or months? Yes, that's probably what we should do (tho only for the release tarballs rather than the devel tarballs). Patch welcome (the relevant code is in `elpaa--prune-old-tarballs` tho changes elsewhere will be needed to propagate whether we're pruning release tarballs or devel tarballs). Stefan