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

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: Martin Edström <meedstrom@runbox.eu>,  "emacs-devel"
>  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,  Tony Zorman <tonyzorman@mailbox.org>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:31:25 +0000
> 
> >>> The current approach is to find the newest commit that touches a
> >>> version header and use that.
> >>
> >> Would it be possible to reflect the commit corresponding to the version
> >> in the "Other versions:" field in the output of M-x describe-package ?
> >
> > Why under "Other version:" (which links to other packages).  IIRC the
> > commit of a VC package should appear under the commit header.  There is
> > the possibility of using a symbolic name if available.
> >
> > I now notice that this is not the case as I had assumed... I'll try to
> > fix it as soon as possible.
> 
> This is the fix:

Can you explain in plain English what this does?