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autoload-generate-file-autoloads can put package--builtin-versions in wrong file

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 15763 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15763: autoload-generate-file-autoloads can put package--builtin-versions in wrong file
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 17:42:54 -0500

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> In current trunk, the autoload section of lisp/htmlfontify.el contains:
>>
>>   ;;; Generated autoloads from hfy-cmap.el
>>   (push (purecopy '(htmlfontify 0 20)) package--builtin-versions)
>>
>> That is:
>>
>> 1) Incorrect (htmlfontify.el is at version 0.21, whereas hfy-cmap.el is
>> at version 0.20).
>>
>> 2) In the wrong file.
>>
>> I guess autoload-generate-file-autoloads should only do the
>> package--builtin-versions stuff when writing to the top-level
>> loaddefs.el file, not when respecting a buffer-local
>> generated-autoload-file.
>
> I'm guessing this was fixed by this commit:
>
> commit 459cf7cb92445e9336d649f128ec1af274e3f5a1
> Author:     Phillip Lord <phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk>
> AuthorDate: Wed Dec 16 23:15:44 2015 +0000
>
>     htmlfontify generate autoload to non-versioned file.
>     
>     * lisp/Makefile.in: Add htmlfontity-loaddefs to autogenel.
>     * lisp/hfy-cmap.el: Update file local.
>     * lisp/htmlfontify.el: Remove autoloads, add require.
>     * test/lisp/htmlfontify-tests.el: Test autoload functionality.
>
> So I'm closing this bug report.  Please reopen if there's more to be
> done here.

FTR, I was reporting a general issue, using htmlfontify as a specific example.
So that change can't have fixed the general issue.
It's still present, but seems not worth fixing.

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