Re: Elpa question: helping with maintainance of a package in Elpa

[chad <yandros@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 12:02 PM Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
wrote:

> > Do I understand the information in readme file from Elpa repository
> correctly: I
> > don't have to do anything special more than just update Phillips repo
> for the
> > package on GH, since the Cron job uses that URL to update the package
> > automatically if the version is changed? Or do I need to do something
> more to
> > get the new version into Elpa too?
>
> The cron job will synchronise the mirror with the changes made on the GH
> repository.  Just note that to release a package, you'll have to bump
> the version tag (any commit changing the line with the version number
> should do).
>

Note (mostly for future search results): "version tag" in this context
means "the line
in the file that looks something like ";; Version: 0.4", rather than
anything having to
do with git tags. (This sometimes confuses people who are/were familiar
with, for
example, Melpa Stable.)

Hope that helps,
~Chad

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