From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reconsider defaults for use-package-vc-prefer-newest Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:28:00 +0300 Message-ID: <8634lw9mz3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86r09jddgk.fsf@gnu.org> <87msk7nym4.fsf@gmail.com> <86tteebj2l.fsf@gnu.org> <87bk0k1ffj.fsf@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18513"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: meedstrom@runbox.eu, yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Suhail Singh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 19 08:29:03 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 1srAf0-0004gK-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:29:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1srAeR-0005lf-69; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:28:27 -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 1srAeO-0005lM-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:28:24 -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 1srAeN-0002kc-7u; Thu, 19 Sep 2024 02:28:23 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=iWEZY3x41qTRkE6Euvt2scEie6g8qOWWz9d5EJDYEKI=; b=nwUo14nqVqWq vTCIKCU2FupQlNtZD3d4VbVCwdOxr51s+59SSOplHrNP4A9sQcsw5f5IL6gFeGi33ixmy6UWcTgY4 oMeHR+fP6F48ZRIowcE9Sw0zoFWHL1sKAF88qZ7stGgG2BayC/O7Ph51XXWWbUibgIO1ENlggLMTN /RqwMQ7PRryohjYNOCGGI8UW9zSpxBXTA3zkm8ZgB2pQeErqKGLBBH9EJOWJVY0KLkcuVu3VMDirb /ag+FYlCNgmQJgk9lQG5YV4Im362Bcp02fCGndA53gbl6U6ktNmJ5yegNzb3xJsGxT2dHufxgfoTp Ia0JyPGy/as1Dwq6g4ah4w==; In-Reply-To: <87bk0k1ffj.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Suhail Singh on Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:38:08 -0400) 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:323752 Archived-At: > From: Suhail Singh > Cc: Suhail Singh , meedstrom@runbox.eu, > yandros@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:38:08 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> When the two notions of version don't correspond to the same commit, it > >> would be helpful if the user could be notified in some way. > > > > Yes, that'd be another reason to alert the user. > > > > Patches to that effect are welcome. > > I suppose if the output of M-x describe-package mentioned the commit > hash in addition to the version the user would at least be aware when > the same version numbers from different archives differ. Out of > curiosity, is that what you had in mind, or something else? No, I meant exactly what you described: to detect the situation where the commit which introduced the version number is not the same as the commit with the version tag. They are supposed to be the same commit.