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Re: How to warn about obsolete file in ELPA package
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Basil L. Contovounesios |
Subject: |
Re: How to warn about obsolete file in ELPA package |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Feb 2021 18:40:38 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>> We would like to emit an obsoletion warning when dash-functional.el is
>>>> used, similar to the one for lisp/obsolete/* libraries.
>>> I think you can get exactly this behavior by placing the file in
>>> a directory called `obsolete`.
>> I don't think this will work with MELPA which bundles dash-functional as
>> its own single-file package.
>
> You'd have to make it a tarball, yes, but AFAIK MELPA supports tarballs
> just fine
Really? -Grumble, more work...-
> so I don't see it as a problem (but then again, I don't see
> the benefit of having a package in MELPA when it's already in GNU ELPA,
> so there are clearly things that are beyond my understanding ;-).
The problem here is that no-one cared to sync the version on GNU ELPA
with its upstream in 6 years :(.
--
Basil