From: Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 34390@debbugs.gnu.org, Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
Subject: bug#34390: package.el says "Obsolete" when it means "No Longer Used"
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 11:15:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eeap5gm.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1iajjdu.fsf@tcd.ie>
Basil L. Contovounesios writes:
> phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) writes:
>
>> Currently package.el reports packages as "Obsolete" when this is
>> probably not a good choice of word, as it is being interpreted as "no
>> longer in active development".
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2019-02/msg00070.html
>>
>> It happens when several versions of a package are installed. Consider
>> this report from M-x package-list-packages
>>
>> dash 2.12.0 obsolete A modern list library for Emacs
>> eglot 1.4 incompat gnu Client for Language Server Protocol (LSP) servers
>> kiwix 0.4.0 incompat melpa-s... Kiwix interface and support.
>>
>>
>> Dash is showing here are obsolete because in my installation 2.15.0 is installed.
>>
>>
>> company 0.9.9 dependency Modular text completion framework
>> dash 2.15.0 dependency A modern list library for Emacs
>> dash-functional 2.15.0 dependency Collection of useful combinators for Emacs
>> Lisp
>> direnv 1.4.0 dependency direnv support for emacs
>>
>>
>> The problem is "obsolete" line appears quite some distance away from
>> other line which shows dash is installed.
>>
>> I would suggested "installed but outdated" perhaps. Or "More Recent
>> Version Installed". Both a bit long.
>
> How about "shadowed" or similar?
The Guix package manager uses a term "superseded." I quite find this
term to be useful and nice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-08 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-08 16:49 bug#34390: package.el says "Obsolete" when it means "No Longer Used" Phillip Lord
2019-02-08 17:10 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-02-08 17:15 ` Brett Gilio [this message]
2019-02-08 17:25 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-02-08 17:16 ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-08 17:42 ` brettg
2019-02-08 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-08 23:50 ` Brett Gilio
2019-10-23 16:45 ` Stefan Kangas
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