From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22690: ELPA repository is corrupted on Savannah Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:33:32 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: References: <56C25E86.9090600@cs.ucla.edu> <2c5eea7f-57cd-7b52-9373-42333f77ee79@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520271144 27064 195.159.176.226 (5 Mar 2018 17:32:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 17:32:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Cc: 22690@debbugs.gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 05 18:32:20 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 1esty9-0005uS-Qj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 18:32:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1esu08-00010c-GP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:34:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50545) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1estzx-0000yr-IM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:34:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1estzu-0007P3-Fg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38261) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1estzu-0007Ox-CI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:34:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1estzu-0004xP-2y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:34:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:34:02 +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=B22690.152027122119029 (code B ref 22690); Mon, 05 Mar 2018 17:34:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22690) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Mar 2018 17:33:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46158 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1estzZ-0004wr-6R for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:33:41 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:38636) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1estzX-0004wd-Ix for 22690@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2018 12:33:40 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C47C160E5B; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:33:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id xJV9IzDndqlg; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:33:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7DAF1615D3; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:33:32 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id HnLxoXDdZCcc; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:33:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BF9A0160E5B; Mon, 5 Mar 2018 09:33:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US 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:143928 Archived-At: On 03/05/2018 05:11 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: > What is the problem? The idea that there is no way to > fix it is somewhat shocking. 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. We could work around the problem by rewriting history, something that is a pain to do with Git (and which arguably is not something we should do, which is why I wrote the somewhat-misleading "the bug cannot be fixed"). We'd rather not work around the problem in this particular case as it's not worth the trouble.