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: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:52:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56C25E86.9090600@cs.ucla.edu> <2c5eea7f-57cd-7b52-9373-42333f77ee79@cs.ucla.edu> <82c51c71-5b0b-6236-4e3b-7bf9cb97aa4c@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 1520370285 6998 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 21:04:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:04:45 +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 22:04:41 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 1etJlE-0000d1-K9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:04:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58196 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJnH-0007dA-0e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:06:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50513) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJa3-0003un-1s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:53:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJa2-0000AU-5p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:53:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:40172) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJa2-0000AA-2Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:53:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etJa1-0004TC-P4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:53:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:53:01 +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=B22690.152036953517131 (code B ref 22690); Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:53:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22690) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Mar 2018 20:52:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48069 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etJZH-0004SF-BP for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58692) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etJZG-0004S3-86 for 22690@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:52:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJZA-0007U5-5t for 22690@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:52:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55327) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJZ8-0007Qe-9N; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:52:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etJZ7-0002F1-Su; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:52:05 -0500 In-reply-to: <82c51c71-5b0b-6236-4e3b-7bf9cb97aa4c@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 5 Mar 2018 15:25:58 -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:143967 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. ]]] > The only practical problem that I know of is that if one tells Git to > complain about the mistaken format, it'll complain. I suppose that a > future version of Git could drop support for the mistaken format, but I > view that as unlikely; and if it does happen we can work around the > problem then. Thanks. I agree that we don't need to do anything now. -- 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.