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30.1; package--description-file handles some packages wrong

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lin Jian <me <at> linj.tech>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 77143 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77143: 30.1;
 package--description-file handles some packages wrong
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:47:52 +0300

> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:50:42 +0800
> From:  Lin Jian via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Lin Jian <me <at> linj.tech> writes:
> 
> > I also notice that the version part of the regex can be improved because
> > it does not take `version-regexp-alist' into consideration.  But that is
> > out of the scope of this bug.
> 
> I tested the above patch with all elisp packages from (Non)GNU(-devel)
> ELPA and MELPA.  All 7 packages from my initial post are fixed.  At the
> same time, I find only one package vm[0] is "broken" by my patch.
> 
> Without my patch, the result is right.
> (package--description-file "vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20250208.60553")
>   ⇒ "vm-pkg.el"
> 
> With my patch, the result is wrong.
> (package--description-file "vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20250208.60553")
>   ⇒ "vm-8.3.0snapshot0.20250208.60553-pkg.el"
> 
> A quick fix is to add snapshot to the regex version part.
> 
> A proper fix is to make the regex version part know
> `version-regexp-alist'.
> 
> [0]: https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu-devel/vm.html

Stefan, any comments?

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