GNU bug report logs - #22213
24.5; please allow specification or elimination of timestamp in autoloads

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>

Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 18:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: David Bremner <david <at> tethera.net>, 22213 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22213: 24.5; please allow specification or elimination of timestamp in autoloads
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:42:12 -0500

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> But for autoloads.el in general this is not true because of the
> existence of entry points such as update-file-autoloads which mean that
> the autoloads file may be updated for some of the files it covers rather
> than for all of them.

I think there are a lot of cases (the majority?) where we know that this
kind of partial update simply isn't going to happen.

I added an option to use the output file's modtime instead.
Seems to work ok for me, but I've left it using the previous method by
default.
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