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: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:48:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877ck14dt4.fsf@neverwas.me> <87o7dcm718.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="39779"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: emacs-erc@gnu.org, 68660@debbugs.gnu.org To: "J.P." 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P.'s message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2024 06:57:39 -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:278748 Archived-At: > Hm, I'm starting to suspect this perceived "breakage" may in fact be > intentional (i.e., a "schema evolution"), at least on the /devel > endpoint, given it seems to be reflected in the disparity between > > ;; /devel/archive-contents > (:maintainer ("Bob Weiner" . "rsw@gnu.org") > ("Mats Lidell" . "matsl@gnu.org")) > > and > > ;; /packages/archive-contents > (:maintainer "Bob Weiner , Mats Lidell" > . "matsl@gnu.org") That just depends on when the package was built (i.e. before or after `elpa.gnu.org`s Emacs was upgraded from Emacs-27 to Emacs-28). > And likewise for ./foo-pkg.el in > > ;; /devel/foo-42.0.tar > (define-package ... :maintainer > '(("Bob Weiner" . "rsw@gnu.org") ("Mats Lidell" . "matsl@gnu.org"))) > > vs. > > ;; /packages/foo-42.0.tar > (define-package ... :maintainer > '("Bob Weiner , Mats Lidell" . "matsl@gnu.org")) Same thing. > Assuming this isn't a red herring, will this perceived dichotomy hold > going forward? That is, can we count on releases at the /packages > endpoint being of the improper-list variety and not the alist variety > for the foreseeable future? No. > If so, then I guess this bug is much ado about nothing and can be > closed, since ERC 5.6+ will be installable on 27+ in the manner > recommended in our docs. Its installable via `package-install`, but not from the `package-menu-describe-package` because of this bug in that command. Stefan