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[ELPA]: [PATCH] Replace modus-*-theme with modus-themes from :core

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Message #88 received at 46964 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Protesilaos Stavrou <info <at> protesilaos.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>, 46964 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46964: [ELPA]: [PATCH] Replace modus-*-theme with
 modus-themes from :core
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:18:21 +0200

On 2021-03-19, 08:55 -0400, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> close 46964
> thanks
>
>> Thank you!  The update went through.  All good here.  The final step
>> will be to remove the old packages.  I guess we can do that in a new bug
>> report, say, six months from now.  Feel free to close this one.
>
> Done.

Thanks!

>> On another note, is there some way I could use elpa-devel to distribute
>> the upstream version of my themes?  Patching emacs.git on a daily basis
>> would not be feasible...  While having a bleeding edge variant would
>> help with user testing, so that when I send a new tagged release to
>> emacs.git (every month or so), I can be confident that everything is in
>> order.
>
> Hmm... currently the GNU ELPA scripts can understand the situation where
> the release and the -devel code come from two different branches of the
> same repository, but having the release come from :core and the other
> from :url would require a fair bit of changes I think.
>
> I believe it would be easier in that case to make both the release and
> the -devel versions come from :url (and not use :core at all).

In that case, let's leave it as-is.  I prefer to keep :core in place
because it is easier to prepare one patch for emacs.git and have it
trickle down to elpa.git.

-- 
Protesilaos Stavrou
protesilaos.com

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