Hello Alex,

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:

>> We could make our own versioning, couldn't we?  Like in (guix-edit
>> "emacs-goto-chg").
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here.  The problem with an
> unversioned source is the following: once the source is updated in
> place, its hash is changed and our package could not be built anymore.

There are packages with version like a string of 0.0.0 plus revision
plus 7 first commit characters.

> Well yeah, but there were only 2 minor changes (compilation warnings
> fixes) between these 2 years:
>
>   https://github.com/emacsorphanage/sr-speedbar/commits/master

Ah, sorry.  Should probably check myself.

> I vote for using the emacsorphanage source (either git-fetch or using
> the latest release are fine for me).

Agreed.

> Jonas Bernoulli is "tarsius" on github.  He is the person who makes a
> lot of cool stuff in the Emacs world (like emacsmirror, emacsorphanage
> and magit).  I wouldn't bother him about making the new release just for
> 2 insignificant commits in the repo.

Yes, not great idea.

> Just for the info, there was an interesting message by tarsius related
> to Emacsmirror (orphanage) and Emacswiki:
>
>   https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/2342#issuecomment-291922427

Thanks for notice.

Here is a new patch.