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: Reconsider defaults for use-package-vc-prefer-newest Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:13:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wmj7dftf.fsf@posteo.net> <87setvxyt6.fsf@gmail.com> <87jzf7o13b.fsf@posteo.net> <87msk3jr0u.fsf@gmail.com> <87setum5do.fsf@posteo.net> <87msk1520e.fsf@gmail.com> <87settknf1.fsf@posteo.net> <87tte8akwa.fsf@gmail.com> <878qvjaep6.fsf@posteo.net> <87cykvwixn.fsf@gmail.com> <87ikukrl77.fsf@posteo.net> <871q17dasa.fsf@gmail.com> <8734lnsdcn.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="30354"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: suhailsingh247@gmail.com, meedstrom@runbox.eu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, tonyzorman@mailbox.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 29 04:14:24 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 1sujS4-0007o6-82 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:14:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sujRJ-0007MU-FO; Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:13:37 -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 1sujRG-0007M7-Vs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:13:35 -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 1sujRD-0003YA-PM; Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:13:31 -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=L7HxeesTNkomHdEIQHdr3Xn598JFDiqN6t9eM6SsMyo=; b=KUoBG4r67lbP H1YfI2H3hh3nMx5Z+qRkEikFCFp5d0Bg5+iSwTuw0tXp5jQD3OKmu7EB3zv0T3Kvy+4+oby93X8yz bsbl/r48W5lP40Ss9NR/4WqUv7BjB//cqpxEhGBlbXhkK1sd3WCsgE48lpRE7mJnl1YE2aK91QBwi 7BzSpqVm1PnA15TH/g7X1tMT+EXH3CFt2xzcbk5CGxkM9Z+IBZQi8FbmdInz8gLXPybdD9orax7VX xdrXpi8AOjRapOGNby2o9Hf0iclxpXNHj+j/tMakxLatjEkyttk2V/+rPvOmnrsJsGlD0/vLJjUpD +18t/KcRrsLAMsfbNOmVrA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sujRD-0000yU-12; Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:13:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8734lnsdcn.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:11:20 +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:324179 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. ]]] > >> 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? How do those problems arise in practice? -- 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)