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

[Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

chad <yandros@gmail.com> writes:

> 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
Yeah; I got that, but thanks anyway!