GNU bug report logs - #23927
25.0.94; Errors when updating using package.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>

Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 04:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.94

Fixed in version 25.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 23927 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pit <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23927 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23927: 25.0.94; Errors when updating using package.el
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:57:13 -0400

Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:

>>>       ~/.emacs.d/elpa/realgud/common/buffer/info.el(.elc)
[...]
> Sorry, I didn't follow this very closely. I'm one of the Realgud
> maintainers; is there anything we can do on our side to make things
> smoother?

Don't distribute files that live in load-path whose basename matches
an item in Emacs's load-path (or is likely to match that in some other
package). Else (require 'foo) may get the wrong foo.

(If common/buffer/ isn't supposed to be in load-path, then you are fine.)
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