Subject: bug#25084: closed (Re: bug#25084: 25.1.90 tarfile has files.el newer than files.elc)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 23:13:02 +0000

Your bug report

#25084: 25.1.90 tarfile has files.el newer than files.elc

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#25084: 25.1.90 tarfile has files.el newer than files.elc
From: Nicolas Petton <[email-masked]>
To: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>, Phillip Lord <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:12:40 +0100
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Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> writes:

> Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>> I think "make-dist" should get a check for this (for each .elc. check it
>> is newer than the .el, probably also for .info and .texi),
>> which --snapshot should run by default.
>
> Done in 129645a. (Necessarily on emacs-25 to benefit next pretest.)

Now that the new pretest is out, I'm closing this issue.

Cheers,
Nico

Subject: 25.1.90 tarfile has files.el newer than files.elc
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:51:43 -0500
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Package: emacs
Version: 25.1.90

In the 25.1.90 tarball, files.el is newer than files.elc.
This ought to be impossible, if the tarfile was created from a bootstrap.
It causes building to recompile files.el, which is harmless but should
not be needed in a release.