Subject: Re: bug#68317: Can't sort *Packages* buffer by version after installing with package-vc

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:53:49 +0200

> From: Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Joseph Turner <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:25:44 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> version-to-list: Invalid version syntax: ‘c99367ebc2f0afe0baaf2f5e5ca1ad9d62ba6e21’ (must start with a number)
> >
> > Sounds like package-vc-commit should be modified to produce a valid
> > version string (which SHA1 is not)?  Philip?
> 
> We can also adjust `package-menu--version-predicate' to handle
> non-version numbers, which I think would be more robust.

Fine by me, but can this be done safely enough for emacs-29?