From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPA vs ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu releases Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:07:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405800462 1159 80.91.229.3 (19 Jul 2014 20:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 19 22:07:36 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X8auu-0001Em-8n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 22:07:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55416 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8aut-0003SI-Ox for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:07:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38127) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8auk-0003Id-Oc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8aue-00016J-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:07:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:15662) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8aue-00016C-Ob for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:07:20 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNLd+D9/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqg0wh X-IPAS-Result: ArUGAIDvNVNLd+D9/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDSsA9gRcXdIIlAQEBAQIBViMFCws0EhQYDSSIBAjSGReOegeEOASpGYFqg0wh X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,753,1389762000"; d="scan'208";a="78139119" Original-Received: from 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.224.253]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 19 Jul 2014 16:07:19 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8DAAE60BEC; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:07:19 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (James Cloos's message of "Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:47:20 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173061 Archived-At: > What is the policy for packages which are now part of ELPA, but which > have directories under ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu where tar releases used to > be posted? So far, there's only AUCTeX in this situation, IIUC, and the two distribution co-exist (i.e. the ftp site is the official AUCTeX release, where the GNU ELPA site is just a packaging of that release). > ELPA, OTOH, has 11.87 and 11.87.1 through 11.87.6, all only available, > AFAICT, as uncompressed tar files. These are all packaging the same 11.87 release. Just with some packaging errors fixed along the way. They may also contain local fixes, tho. Stefan