From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#68660: 29.2; ELPA: Wrong type argument w. multiple maintainers in package-menu-mode Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:41:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877ck14dt4.fsf@neverwas.me> <87o7dcm718.fsf@neverwas.me> <87le8fisqg.fsf@neverwas.me> <87ede7frtz.fsf@neverwas.me> <87y1ceby5w.fsf@neverwas.me> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21016"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: emacs-erc@gnu.org, Amin Bandali , 68660@debbugs.gnu.org To: "J.P." 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P.'s message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2024 06:31:39 -0800") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:278789 Archived-At: >>> I can see several ways to "fix" this, but I think the simplest would be > Would one of those several ways possibly include overriding the > `package-desc-extras' :maintainer item scraped by `lm-maintainers' with > a spec item from an elpa-packages entry? I see that support for a > `:maintainer' keyword was recently added, but it appears to serve some > other purpose. Anyway, I've attached a sketch of what I'm trying to > describe, but I'm rather unfamiliar with this program. Hmm... this requires manual work per package, and it drops support for multiple maintainers altogether, so I'd rather not go there. I was thinking instead of making `:maintainer` hold only a single item (the improper list thingy) and use `:maintainers` to hold the list of maintainers when there's more than one, which would be more backward compatible and would solve the problem for all packages. Stefan