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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Cc: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: Re: policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:38:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83czxpyyeu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86eei553c0.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (message from Stephen Leake on Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:10:07 -0800)

> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru,  phillip.lord@russet.org.uk,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:10:07 -0800
> 
> >> However, if you then make changes in that merged branch (which we
> >> definitely want to support), it is not simple to propagate them back to
> >> the separate branches; you have to cherry-pick.
> >
> > I don't think we want to maintain the bundled packages inside the
> > Emacs repository.  IOW, the flow of changes should be unidirectional:
> > from elpa.git to emacs.git, but not in the other direction.
> 
> As a rule, yes. But part of the point of doing this via git is allow
> occasional edits in the emacs source tree, and have those edits
> propagate back to the upstream.

If that can be easily supported without sacrificing anything
important, fine.  But it isn't a requirement, at least not from my
POV.

> For emacs developers that do not also have a local elpa repository,
> that's the only way to fix a bug in a bundled package for a release.

I think any Emacs developer who wants to contribute to ELPA should
have an elpa.git checkout locally.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-28 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-21  1:41 policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball Stephen Leake
2021-01-21 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-22 10:56   ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2021-01-22 11:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-22 14:05       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-21 21:54 ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-23  2:50   ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-23  8:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 16:26       ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 21:49       ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-25 19:38         ` [SPAM UNSURE] " Stephen Leake
2021-01-25 19:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-25 20:39           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26  1:04             ` Andy Moreton
2021-01-26  2:38               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 14:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 15:25               ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 15:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 16:14                   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 16:30                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 17:27                       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 17:42                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 17:57                           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 19:12                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-28  0:15                               ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-28  2:05                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-28 13:47                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-28 13:43                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-27 14:52                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-27 14:57                           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 18:02                 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-26 18:12                   ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-27 14:21                   ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 14:35                     ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-27 14:48               ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 14:42             ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 16:22               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-23  9:27     ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-23  9:57       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24  2:28         ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-24 16:27           ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 17:30         ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 18:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 20:10             ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 20:15               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 20:42                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-25 22:00                   ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-26  1:57                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-01-26 14:48                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-26 15:24                       ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-27 14:37                       ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 16:22                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-28  0:10                           ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-28 13:38                             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-01-25 19:30                 ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-25 19:53                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-27 14:31                     ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 14:44                       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-28  3:34                         ` Andy Moreton
2021-01-27 16:20                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-29 17:47                         ` Phillip Lord
2021-02-01  8:45                           ` Robert Pluim
2021-02-01 15:09                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-01-24 22:09     ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-25 19:14       ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-27 11:10         ` Phillip Lord
2021-01-27 14:31           ` Stefan Monnier
2021-01-28  0:05           ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-24 20:19   ` Stephen Leake
2021-01-24  2:59 ` Dmitry Gutov

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