From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reconsider defaults for use-package-vc-prefer-newest Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:39:36 +0300 Message-ID: <86setv95rr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86r09jddgk.fsf@gnu.org> <87msk7nym4.fsf@gmail.com> <86tteebj2l.fsf@gnu.org> <87bk0k1ffj.fsf@gmail.com> <8634lw9mz3.fsf@gnu.org> <87h6abj176.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19917"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: meedstrom@runbox.eu, yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Suhail Singh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 19 14:40:30 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1srGST-0004xd-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1srGRn-0002p6-09; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:39:47 -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 1srGRh-0002on-PF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:39:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1srGRg-0005F2-LU; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:39:40 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=ZxvXg4I/V2sDQiTTq5a1829+5cRcZ5caIC79EkriHwk=; b=cXASI1zVe1Js 5oYya3feF426fxFsEsUGoNVhRtg7ovhvjBsuTCMhh9kmTSMxxjn66cGfKQV6HNCrKT7I8MsAesUvu eOckagrwrhmZlyEy0pPu5fVimM6CaUgZLXbFFBdsIYFsRIzzaqt8yOkfnB994tyETyTB21zNytK/e eXEOTE4AYFhI2FK8xt8Efs2qKq+ZilqfgPjsGafikuqpqQtVHmE9bPqAVYCRk1Ak0RlaSWxVwLJbx vfd5B3BVXexTIhrEf4pxxMBsHc+UMyiquAmJBeLpA9/45F6L/QtyIuVZf3D7NbmcmkCi3la3TIiVE dbSplZu1TCrcC4EQxFmsLg==; In-Reply-To: <87h6abj176.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Suhail Singh on Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:08:13 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:323774 Archived-At: > From: Suhail Singh > Cc: Suhail Singh , meedstrom@runbox.eu, > yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:08:13 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > No, I meant exactly what you described: to detect the situation where > > the commit which introduced the version number is not the same as the > > commit with the version tag. They are supposed to be the same commit. > > Two questions: > > 1. When would it make sense for this check to be triggered? I guess when we see version tags in the repository? > 2. Who should be notified (and how) of this when this discrepancy is > detected? The user (for example, by issuing a warning). > Ideally, the package authors / maintainers would be notified directly > via the GNU and NonGNU ELPA archives. Or was your recommendation to > notify the users of the package upon install time, instead? If former, > are there already some set of checks / tests run by the archives, where > such an additional check could be added? I meant the users.