GNU bug report logs - #77143
30.1; package--description-file handles some packages wrong

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lin Jian <me <at> linj.tech>

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:12:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 30.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #27 received at 77143-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, me <at> linj.tech
Cc: 77143-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77143: 30.1;
 package--description-file handles some packages wrong
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 11:16:14 +0300
> Cc: me <at> linj.tech, 77143 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:12:31 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> > Cc: 77143 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:04:19 -0400
> > From:  Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> > 
> > >> 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.
> > 
> > Thanks I pushed your patch, amended to add `snapshot`.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Should this bug be closed now?

Closing.




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