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

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > >> The idea is to add a "COMMIT MISMATCH" warning whenever we detect that
>   > >> two packages have different commits.
>   > >
>   > > Which are the two packages being considered?
>
>   > IIRC the local package you have installed, the package on NonGNU ELPA,
>   > the package on MELPA Stable and the package on MELPA Unstable.
>
> Would it be possible to describe a concrete example and state
> concretely what sort of problem this would aim to detect?

Suhail gave the example of julia-mode.

> How do those problems arise in practice?

Because of differences in how releases are marked.  ELPA checks if a
commit touches the "Version" header of an Elisp file, while MELPA
requires a Git tag to annotate the commit used to create the tarball.

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