Re: [elpa] main b8d4806d47: * elpa-packages (switchy-window): Ignore LICENSE and Makefile

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Hi Philip,

I think I need some ELPA help.  The package still hasn't appeared.

Yesterday evening, I got a mail with a build error caused by the
Copyright notice still mentioning myself and not the FSF.  I have fixed
that but still the package isn't online (and my experience with, e.g.,
AUCTeX suggests ELPA builds quite frequently nowadays).  Even more, I
cannot build the package locally and don't understand the error:

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elpa on  main 
❯ make packages/switchy-window
Byte compiling packages/switchy-window/switchy-window.el
Unable to activate package ‘switchy-window’.
Required package ‘compat-29.1.3.4’ is unavailable

In toplevel form:
packages/switchy-window/switchy-window.el:59:2: Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, compat
make: *** [GNUmakefile:119: packages/switchy-window/switchy-window.elc] Error 1

elpa on  main 
❯ realpath packages/switchy-window
/home/horn/Repos/el/elpa/packages/switchy-window

elpa on  main 
❯ make build/switchy-window
emacs --batch -l /home/horn/Repos/el/elpa/admin/elpa-admin.el	\
         -f elpaa-batch-make-one-package switchy-window
======== Building tarball archive/switchy-window-1.0.tar...
Build error for archive/switchy-window-1.0.tar: (error "Can’t find main file /home/horn/Repos/el/elpa/packages/switchy-window/switchy-window.el file in /home/horn/Repos/el/elpa/packages/switchy-window/")
######## Build of package archive/switchy-window-1.0.tar FAILED!!

elpa on  main 
❯ ls -l /home/horn/Repos/el/elpa/packages/switchy-window/
total 56
-rw-r--r-- 1 horn horn 35141  9. Apr 23:21 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 horn horn   335 10. Apr 09:33 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 horn horn  2863 10. Apr 09:33 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 horn horn  8355 10. Apr 09:33 switchy-window.el
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Why can't it require compat?  I've bumped the compat version to 29.1.4.1
now (which is the most current version which I have installed locally,
too) and tried again after "make sync/switchy-window".  Now I get:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
elpa on  main 
❯ make package/switchy-window
make: *** No rule to make target 'package/switchy-window'.  Stop.

elpa on  main 
❯ make build/switchy-window
emacs --batch -l /home/horn/Repos/el/elpa/admin/elpa-admin.el	\
         -f elpaa-batch-make-one-package switchy-window
======== Building tarball archive/switchy-window-1.0.tar...
Build error for archive/switchy-window-1.0.tar: (error "Can’t find main file /home/horn/Repos/el/elpa/packages/switchy-window/switchy-window.el file in /home/horn/Repos/el/elpa/packages/switchy-window/")
######## Build of package archive/switchy-window-1.0.tar FAILED!!
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Why can't it find
/home/horn/Repos/el/elpa/packages/switchy-window/switchy-window.el which
actually does exist?

And the local build aside, to I need to increment the Version in order
to trigger another try by ELPA after a failure?

Bye,
Tassilo