bug#73823: Old version of hierarchy.el still distributed by MELPA

[Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 at 04:52, Andrea Corallo wrote:

> Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 9:47 AM Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> okay but this is not an Emacs nor Elpa bug.
>>
>> True, at least from the perspective of who is to blame (which I don't
>> think matters). But someone who cares about the package – and those
>> people are presumably reachable in this mailing list – should ask
>> MELPA to remove it from their archive. This is true every time some
>> package makes it into Emacs and stops being developed at its original
>> place. There's no way MELPA could magically find out about it.
>
> Hi Augusto, I'm not against keep on discussing that on the list and you
> can Cc whoever you think is useful, I just tagged the bug as "notabug"
> and closed it as it's just not an Emacs bug :)

Makes sense, thanks for the clarification :-).

> AFAIU there's noting we can do here to fix that, opening a PR to MELPA
> is just the right thing to do for the ecosystem.
>
> BR
>
>   Andrea