GNU bug report logs - #23607
Please apply this patched function to package.el in Emacs 25.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Robert Weiner <rswgnu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 23:12:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 18976, 23636

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 23607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 23607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#23607: Please apply this patched function to package.el in
 Emacs 25.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 17:56:39 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> FWIW, I think this will break the dash package which includes
>>> a dev/ert.el file with autoload cookies in it and those shouldn't be
>>> placed into the dash-autoloads.el file.
>> What kind of breakage do you have in mind?
>
> The autoloads for the real ert.el will be overridden by those from
> dash-autoloads.el which will say that for example that ert-deftest
> should be autoloaded from "dev/ert.el".

It seems like the proposed patch would introduce breaking changes, and
the bug report stalled at that point.  So it seem unlikely that there'll
be further progress in this bug report, and I'm closing it.

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