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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 07:57:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvczaex0im.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfjbrt6h.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Wed,  26 Oct 2022 06:32:38 +0000")

>> More importantly, it would be good to notice when that flag is out of
>> date, i.e. signal an error if the `Version:` has changed when that flag
>> is set.  Maybe simply require that flag to be set to a string (rather
>> than just `t`) which is the expected version specified in `Version:` and
>> then signal an error if they don't agree?
>
> Sure, that can be done but I don't see why?

Because more often than I'd like, upstream management changes without us
being made aware of them.  So especially for discouraged flags, we should
make extra sure that these flags are still desired.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-26 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-22 10:31 Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-23  4:47 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2022-10-23  8:43   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24  6:14   ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-24  6:45     ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2022-10-24  8:07       ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-24 14:06       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-10-26 19:18         ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 16:00       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 16:39         ` Jostein Kjønigsen
2022-10-26 19:18           ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 19:27         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-24 15:58     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-24 17:27     ` Stephen Leake
2022-10-24 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26  6:32   ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 11:57     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-10-26 15:27       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 18:31       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26 18:55         ` Stefan Monnier
2022-10-26 19:07           ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-25 20:14 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-26  5:10   ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-26  6:30     ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-26  8:05       ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-10-26 19:18       ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-10-26  5:58 Payas Relekar
2022-10-26  8:07 ` Bozhidar Batsov

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