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#63260
29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads
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Reported by: Basil Contovounesios <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 10:16:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 63298
Found in version 29.0.90
Done: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #31 received at 63260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Cc: 63260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
> Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 15:10:23 +0200
> From: Basil Contovounesios via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>
> Robert Pluim [2023-05-05 08:36 +0200] wrote:
>
> > The file-missing error is expected, no? Thatʼs why the autoloads
> > loading is wrapped in `with-demoted-errors'. Although if the message bothers
> > you, I guess we could check `file-exists-p' for it.
>
> I think it's problematic to emit even a demoted error for supported
> circumstances, such as a 'library' package that defines no autoload
> cookies.
>
> Besides, shouldn't the autoloads file be generated unconditionally?
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2022-06/msg00570.html
>
> While the error logged to *Messages* is relatively silent, its subequent
> repetition on Emacs startup is not:
>
> $ emacs-29
> Error loading autoloads: (file-missing Cannot open load file
> No such file or directory
> /tmp/tmp.QQvQfBZ384/.emacs.d/elpa/sicp-20200512.1137/sicp-autoloads)
>
> This does not seem like TRT to me.
What happened in Emacs 28 in the same situation?
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