From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Hundreds of ELPA packages updated today? Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:41:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0102018e942f650b-fed63949-a18b-4e01-9e09-3147b4145a30-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com> <87msqehb9r.fsf@posteo.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20001"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: romain@rfr.sh, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 02 23:42:31 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 1rrltl-0004xt-Mc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:42:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rrltC-0003Ga-41; Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:41:54 -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 1rrltA-0003GB-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:41:52 -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 1rrltA-0004iy-9V; Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:41:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=PR30Je4RrIX2MzSrWJvCMTWISFuX2D/H0RUd4OO6hIk=; b=lnUvf5ci0FwE ps2BwQWLRXArU9aucSC3dTs/NkV3zcHMKHdoY55xxAt7IfMC1t9Kl7o/VugWCVI+F7lwTuLCwcqtV TEeuKhH+PVU/xCXVfPZgCQVlo1bakVuc0W+DZjb3cr3vg3rwHcc2RhsrISHwY8eaq5Kw0HTtWK3lG laVomyHj3g/yvajWGU31odggVhW+WFM65YSHR/IE6QbImmAQFcfSP3dP5Drm/w+XbK45t7K7ZeetW zg0d+Wwrkm+9dU4aeTrx9LSS4irSg38ga9mp9pKCEWcrfNGg7CcHDtyeuRwiHcWyNvtbGbuW6Ng3W Yug/x+o1ri5pAY8goGojSg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rrlt5-0003MA-GP; Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:41:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87msqehb9r.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sun, 31 Mar 2024 11:49:04 +0000) 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:317469 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > gnu-emacs-sources received a few hundred update notifications for ELPA > > packages this morning, and in the web interface their latest version is > > indeed dated 2024-Mar-31. > > > > Glitch in the system, or is something nefarious going on? > I am not quite sure, but one reason might have been the recent addition > of Atom feeds for package updates to elpa-admin.el, which have now been > generated for all packages. If that's what caused it, maybe in the future we can manually update the time stamps after such a change, so that it does not trigger announcements for individual packages. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)