Re: expand-region-el history overwritten

2016-11-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Barak, On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 09:59:20PM +, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > Don't worry, Lev is already on top of the situation, and has an > appropriate -2 release already pushed to git. Cool. > If you folks want to move the git repo, I'm happy to. The only reason > I didn't earlier is

Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
Sven Joachim writes: > I have. ;-) > > , > | $ apt-cache show emacs25-nox | grep ^Provides: > | Provides: editor, emacs25, emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader > ` Heh, well that's a touch embarrassing. Perhaps I was remembering something that's long been obviated, or just mi

Re: expand-region-el history overwritten

2016-11-01 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
Thanks for the note. Don't worry, Lev is already on top of the situation, and has an appropriate -2 release already pushed to git. If you folks want to move the git repo, I'm happy to. The only reason I didn't earlier is that the repo it was in pre-dated the elpa- packaging stuff. Maybe they can

Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-11-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Sven, On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 04:59:15PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Do you expect dak to reject the upload, or the provides simply to have > > no effect? > > Neither of those is true, see Policy ยง7.5. Although this fails to > mention that Provides can now be versioned, see bug #761219[

Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-11-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-11-01 08:40 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:12:45PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: >> As far as I understand it, nothing can provide emacs25 except for the >> emacs25 binary package (because emacs25 already exists as a binary >> package)[1]. > > I don't think this is tr

expand-region-el history overwritten

2016-11-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Dear Lev, It looks like you uploaded expand-region-el thinking it was a NEW package, but in fact it already existed in the archive. The old package already used dh-elpa, and it's just that there was no git repo in our team's part of alioth. It would probably be best to take the old source packag

Re: RFC: flavored provides, i.e. emacs25ish

2016-11-01 Thread Sean Whitton
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:12:45PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > As far as I understand it, nothing can provide emacs25 except for the > emacs25 binary package (because emacs25 already exists as a binary > package)[1]. I don't think this is true, but I don't have any hands-on experience with Provid