Re: Reconsider defaults for use-package-vc-prefer-newest

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>
> Cc: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>,  meedstrom@runbox.eu,
>   yandros@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:08:13 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1. When would it make sense for this check to be triggered?

I guess when we see version tags in the repository?

> 2. Who should be notified (and how) of this when this discrepancy is
>    detected?

The user (for example, by issuing a warning).

> Ideally, the package authors / maintainers would be notified directly
> via the GNU and NonGNU ELPA archives.  Or was your recommendation to
> notify the users of the package upon install time, instead?  If former,
> are there already some set of checks / tests run by the archives, where
> such an additional check could be added?

I meant the users.