nongnu ELPA and slime

[Peter Hull]

Hi,

Is this list the correct place to discuss nongnu ELPA?

I've come across a problem with the latest (2.29.1) SLIME package when
installed from ELPA. Basically the package appears to install without
problems but none of its functions are registered so it cannot be
activated. There is more discussion on
https://github.com/slime/slime/issues/808

What I believe is happening is that the slime-2.29.1.tar on ELPA is
being constructed without its hand-written slime-autoloads.el file. At
install time, an autoload file is generated which doesn't work,
because the relevant functions in SLIME are not marked with autoload
cookies. The release tarball on github does have the autoloads file,
as does slime-20240125.1336 from MELPA.

Unfortunately I've only ever been a user of emacs packages so I don't
understand how it all works. Is there a way to specify that the
slime-autoloads.el file needs to be included in the package, or will
the relevant bits of SLIME need to be annotated so the generated file
is functional?

Thanks for your help,

Peter