Re: Update of ELPA package guess-language

[Tassilo Horn]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

>> A while ago I contributed the package guess-language to ELPA [1].  In
>> the meantime, I’ve added some improvements in my own git repository
>> but it’s not entirely clear to me how I can update the ELPA version.
>> From reading the ELPA README [2], it seems that I have to request an
>> update on this list every time there is (significant-enough) change
>> in my repo (since I wasn’t given push permissions).  Is that really
>> true?  I’m asking because I rarely see such requests here and because
>> it’s not a terribly efficient workflow.  Is there no way that ELPA
>> can automatically pull changes from the original repository?
>
> It should be possible, some package specifications (see elpa-packages)
> are given the :auto-sync attribute, but I am not sure what the
> conditions are for a package to be granted this status.

I can't find docs for :auto-sync.  Is that still in use, i.e., is there
any behavior associated with it?  At least Stefan said in [1] that
auto-sync is effective for all packages in NonGNU ELPA.  And indeed, I
can testify that changing stuff in my upstream repo and increasing the
Version will trigger a new NonGNU ELPA release.

But maybe adding :auto-sync t is needed for GNU ELPA.

Bye,
Tassilo

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-08/msg00533.html