Re: Elpa question: helping with maintainance of a package in Elpa

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

chad <yandros@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 12:02 PM Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> wrote:
>
>> > Do I understand the information in readme file from Elpa repository
>> correctly: I
>> > don't have to do anything special more than just update Phillips repo
>> for the
>> > package on GH, since the Cron job uses that URL to update the package
>> > automatically if the version is changed? Or do I need to do something
>> more to
>> > get the new version into Elpa too?
>>
>> The cron job will synchronise the mirror with the changes made on the GH
>> repository.  Just note that to release a package, you'll have to bump
>> the version tag (any commit changing the line with the version number
>> should do).
>>
>
> Note (mostly for future search results): "version tag" in this context
> means "the line
> in the file that looks something like ";; Version: 0.4", rather than
> anything having to
> do with git tags. (This sometimes confuses people who are/were familiar
> with, for
> example, Melpa Stable.)

Right, my bad, I should have said "Version" header or "Version"
attribute in the package header.

> Hope that helps,
> ~Chad