Re: Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA

[Richard Stallman]

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  > >> We might decide to support their style of release, or decide not to
  > >> include their packages in NonGNU ELPA, or we might come up with
  > >> another solution.  I don't know what's best.  But I'm sure we should
  > >> think about that before we decide.

  > If the only issue a package has is that it is developed using a "rolling
  > release" model, it would be nonsensical for us to not accommodate the
  > request and reject a (perhaps popular) package on that ground.

It may sometimes be good for us to accept such packages and call each
version a "release."  But we have another way to accept them: to
selectively copy some versions and call them "releases", while
omitting other versions.

I don't think either approach is inherently nonsensical.
We should not rule either one out arbitrarily.

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