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29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Basil Contovounesios <contovob <at> tcd.ie>, philipk <at> posteo.net
Cc: 63260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#63260: 29.0.90; Regression installing/activating packages without autoloads
Date: Sun, 07 May 2023 13:50:49 +0300

> From: Basil Contovounesios <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
> Cc: 63260 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  rpluim <at> gmail.com,  philipk <at> posteo.net
> Date: Sun, 07 May 2023 11:46:29 +0200
> 
> >> 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?
> 
> Emacs 28.2 installs and activates the sicp package without complaints,
> and generates the following -autoloads.el file, as expected:
> 
> 
> The current emacs-29 generates no such autoloads file, because the sicp
> package defines no autoloads.  But in general the -autoloads.el file is
> nevertheless needed, at least for its load-path logic.

AFAIU, in https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=62734 I asked
Philip what would happen in this case, and he replied that the changes
he proposed did TRT in that case?  So what is different here?  Philip?

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