Re: [ELPA] new single file package: mpdired.el

[Philip Kaludercic]

Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> OK, this works.  If you have signed the CA, then you could set the
>>>> version of your package to some pre-release version, using a
>>>
>>> I don't know what "signed the CA" means in this context.
>>
>> Contributing packages to GNU ELPA requires you to have signed the FSF
>> copyright assignment, see (info "(emacs) Copyright Assignment"), since
>> GNU ELPA packages are formally part of Emacs.  Assuming you haven't done
>> so yet, a maintainer can send you the form.
>
> Ok.  So I already have this because I've already contributed to Emacs.

Ok, then nevermind.  I could have also checked AUTHORS to verify that.

>> Git tags aren't needed at all.  The ELPA build server relies entirely on
>> what the Version tag says.
>
> Ok, I can still have tags on my side.

Right, they are just not synchronised.

>>>                                         Just to be sure I understand
>>> correctly: every version number with a -pre suffix won't update on ELPA?
>>
>> Yes, more specifically any version which version-to-list can parse and
>> returns a version list without any negative elements:
>>
>>   (version-to-list "1.0") ;=> (1 0)
>>   (version-to-list "1.0pre") ;=> (1 0 -1)
>>   (version-to-list "1.0git") ;=> (1 0 -4)
>>
>> see `version-regexp-alist' and keep in mind that the ELPA build server
>> uses a few more extensions.
>
> Thanks, all is clear for me now.

Great.  Should we add the package immediately or do you want to wait?

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