From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22690: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:25:58 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <82c51c71-5b0b-6236-4e3b-7bf9cb97aa4c@cs.ucla.edu> References: <56C25E86.9090600@cs.ucla.edu> <2c5eea7f-57cd-7b52-9373-42333f77ee79@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520292322 23874 195.159.176.226 (5 Mar 2018 23:25:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 23:25:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Cc: 22690@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 00:25:18 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eszTe-0004CO-Hk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:25:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52074 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszVh-00078T-Af for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:27:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52246) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszVb-000784-Mz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:27:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszVW-0008Ve-MC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:27:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszVW-0008VA-Ic for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:27:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eszVW-0004UK-CZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:27:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:27:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22690 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 22690-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B22690.152029236717183 (code B ref 22690); Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:27:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22690) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Mar 2018 23:26:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46434 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eszUc-0004T5-Q1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:57796) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eszUb-0004SU-63 for 22690@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C52B1615A9; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:25:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id xISn3Zb-S2Dv; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:25:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DC41615D3; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:25:58 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id Hu64oZ0yB9IK; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:25:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9018B1615A9; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:25:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:143941 Archived-At: On 03/05/2018 03:05 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > What practical problems does this cause for us? > > Do we have another repo that we can use? The only practical problem that I know of is that if one tells Git to complain about the mistaken format, it'll complain. I suppose that a future version of Git could drop support for the mistaken format, but I view that as unlikely; and if it does happen we can work around the problem then. It's not a question of whether to use Git or not, or whether to use another copy of the repository or not. Any simple Git clone of the current repository will have the same problem. Converting to any other repository format (e.g., Bzr) would be equivalent to converting to current Git format; either action would work around the problem equally well. Either action would also be a hassle, though, which is why we haven't done it.