From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving GNU ELPA Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:26:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87wp6yf2b3.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <87r2xg2wra.fsf@bernoul.li> <87pod02swk.fsf@bernoul.li> <87tw29ogxa.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87vamo58ze.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500899307 10809 195.159.176.226 (24 Jul 2017 12:28:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:28:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 24 14:28:20 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dZcTE-0002SQ-3t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 14:28:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54632 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZcTJ-0003l8-Mo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:28:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZcSi-0003l3-2z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZcSh-000607-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:27:48 -0400 Original-Received: from cloud103.planethippo.com ([78.129.138.110]:46082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZcSb-0005nD-IO; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:27:41 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=2fYv/Q2uM7DXwOFYGoJS2y/iCfo/9nZcXGwKyazrVdc=; b=slhRnn0gIPN/bj6ZMoIsd/cYJ rgIQC481y99PBEeFPP5aoNwQPnEtXAnzXVARRVlq21kQK5BMxX9i3JBAC64utwbfsoBUYozRXNdgR hMlz3whZnYlariVlNDH+dg1nC5f4HL7FFJMM0okj6f4o0Y4xW/TwNiPJ3exbOr2R/9vtBffZeLn7X bXZeheQLPM+5dTuvicLeOudADDxhNSeh8GPhekf6oAbZyNNi3H6+fBWQAkMCqdiXAsKOfpFWiDmVf scFy5rVw7XcP2yAz1hWATWnA2cwTgRHCJxj4pl6NejZ3kOiGRkR3liQHooBBJie5EuXcYQxJQfYpF GCz9eU0CA==; Original-Received: from [193.86.249.246] (port=35920 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1dZcRt-001Dmb-7m; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:26:57 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:54:11 -0400") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 78.129.138.110 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216960 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > Typically things like incorrect copyright notices or compilation breakage. > > > Does ELPA not check for the copyright? I.e. if it's incorrect, it will > > be wrong in the git repo only and not in the distributed ELPA package. > > We could make ELPA check that files have the correct copyright notices. > We could also make it check that they have the correct license notices. > It would be useful to implement sending us warnings for that. > > Would anyone like to implement this? It already does this. Incorrect copyright notices are nothing urgent, since they need not go live to elpa.gnu.org -- they will be present only in git. So not an urgent need for changes. Phil