Re: [SPAM UNSURE] Re: policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball

[Stephen Leake]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org,  phillip.lord@russet.org.uk,
>>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:57:17 -0500
>> 
>> > So when the upstream repository in elpa.git gets new commits, that
>> > someone will have to do that again?
>> 
>> Yes, we'll need to sync them every once in a while.
>
> Then I think this is only workable if such updates are done
> automatically by some cron job.

One way to avoid the need for syncing the emacs release branches is to
keep _all_ branches of bundled packages in emacs.git; when a package
becomes bundled, it moves from elpa.git to emacs.git.

I think the current elpa 'make package/[PKNAME]' could handle that?

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-- Stephe