Re: Reconsider defaults for use-package-vc-prefer-newest

[Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> If the problem is that there's a tag with the correct version, but the
> Package-Version heading was not updated, we could perhaps have
> use-package :vc detect that and either display a warning or even
> automatically use the commit with the tag.

FWIW, a situation I have encountered is when the commit corresponding to
a release tag is not the same commit that introduced the version in the
package header.  This can come up, for instance, when a package is
available both in melpa-stable and nongnu.  The former uses git tags for
versions whereas the latter uses the package header.  However, while the
version of the packages may nominally be the same, they may correspond
to different commits.  I.e., having two different sources of version
information can result in ambiguity.

When the two notions of version don't correspond to the same commit, it
would be helpful if the user could be notified in some way.

-- 
Suhail