From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22690: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56C25E86.9090600@cs.ucla.edu> <2c5eea7f-57cd-7b52-9373-42333f77ee79@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520291059 7244 195.159.176.226 (5 Mar 2018 23:04:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 23:04:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22690@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 00:04:15 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1esz9P-0000nY-5m for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:04:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszBR-0000CL-Pf for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:06:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszBD-0000Aa-3K for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:06:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszBC-0006EK-1U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:06:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38522) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszBB-0006E2-UQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:06:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eszBB-00040Q-Ib for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:06:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:06:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22690 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 22690-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B22690.152029111915343 (code B ref 22690); Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:06:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22690) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Mar 2018 23:05:19 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46419 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eszAV-0003zP-6o for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55059) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eszAT-0003zD-Re for 22690@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszAN-0005Zz-Pv for 22690@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:12 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35508) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eszAM-0005YV-5f; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eszAL-0005Oj-KR; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:05:09 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:33:32 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:143940 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > As I understand it the problem is that the repository data uses a Git > format that was a mistake and has been deprecated in later Git releases. > Current versions of Git do not generate this mistaken format, and > optionally warn if they discover it in the repository (the mistaken > format still works otherwise). Our repository contains data that was > generated by an older Git that had the bug. What practical problems does this cause for us? Do we have another repo that we can use? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.