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, 14 Feb 2024 15:08:44 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877ck14dt4.fsf@neverwas.me> <87o7dcm718.fsf@neverwas.me> <87le8fisqg.fsf@neverwas.me> <87ede7frtz.fsf@neverwas.me> <87y1ceby5w.fsf@neverwas.me> <877cjyaa31.fsf@neverwas.me> <87ttmssxok.fsf@neverwas.me> <87eddfg61t.fsf@neverwas.me> <87a5o3gexk.fsf@posteo.net> <877cj6eu2t.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="7056"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: Philip Kaludercic , emacs-erc@gnu.org, Amin Bandali , 68660@debbugs.gnu.org To: "J.P." 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P.'s message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:15:06 -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:280029 Archived-At: OK, OK, I'll see if I can find some time&motivation to work on this. It shouldn't be very hard, Stefan J.P. [2024-02-14 11:15:06] wrote: > Philip Kaludercic writes: > >> "J.P." writes: >> >>> Stefan has suggested renaming the `:maintainer' item in the `extras' >>> slot of `package-desc' objects to `:maintainers' (plural). IIUC, this >>> would have the effect of solving the issue by omitting the "Maintainer:" >>> line item in *Help* buffers produced by `package-menu-describe-package' >>> and friends for all packages on all Emacs versions below 30.1. >> >> That also seems to be the best idea to me as well. > > Nice. And to be clear, by 'omitting the "Maintainer:" line', I meant > only WRT the `describe-package' results in Emacs and (hopefully) not the > web pages at http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/foo.html, etc. > >> >>> Full >>> remediation would, I think, also require that foo-pkg.el files and >>> /archive-contents data hosted on elpa.gnu.org reflect the newer format. >> >> I am not familiar with ERC's infrastructure, shouldn't this happen >> automatically? > > Yes, automatically. But I think elpa-admin would still need a shim, at > least until such time as the Emacs running on the production instance is > upgraded to 30.1 (or 29.3, if such a thing ever materializes). Not sure > if it's Stefan or the GNU infra people who control this. > >> >>> To help move this process along, Stefan has called for patches, but I >>> unfortunately am unable to reciprocate because I lack the wherewithal. >>> Hoping you're able to assist in this regard either directly, with code, >>> or by pointing out specific areas in the Emacs code base (and possibly >>> elpa-admin's as well) that would need addressing. >> >> I could help, but I don't understand what is going on well enough to >> produce any concrete patches. > > Thanks. I myself don't understand the whole picture either, only what's > readily apparent from observed behavior. I mean, I guess I can give it a > shot, but I'll mostly be flying blind. > >> >>> TIA, >>> J.P. >>> >>> [1] >>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2024-01/msg01575.html