Re: How to warn about obsolete file in ELPA package

["Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>>> We would like to emit an obsoletion warning when dash-functional.el is
>>>> used, similar to the one for lisp/obsolete/* libraries.
>>> I think you can get exactly this behavior by placing the file in
>>> a directory called `obsolete`.
>> I don't think this will work with MELPA which bundles dash-functional as
>> its own single-file package.
>
> You'd have to make it a tarball, yes, but AFAIK MELPA supports tarballs
> just fine

Really?  -Grumble, more work...-

> so I don't see it as a problem (but then again, I don't see
> the benefit of having a package in MELPA when it's already in GNU ELPA,
> so there are clearly things that are beyond my understanding ;-).

The problem here is that no-one cared to sync the version on GNU ELPA
with its upstream in 6 years :(.

-- 
Basil