Re: add keyword search and display in details for list-packages

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:25:44 -0500 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>>>> I spent about 2 hours trying to figure out what's going on, following
>>>> your instructions (which worked) and debugging things ad-hoc.
>>>> It seems that the presence of the "PACKAGE-pkg.el" file is causing the
>>>> keyword evaluation to be skipped as a sort of cache takes over, but
>>>> I lost track of the indirection layers and couldn't figure it out.
SM> I can take a look.

SM> The patch you show only applies to `archive--simple-package-p', so
SM> indeed it won't affect packages that have a <foo>-pkg.el.
SM> For those with a <foo>-pkg.el, the keywords will have to be provided in
SM> the <foo>-pkg.el file.  But you may opt not to bother, because the
SM> <foo>-pkg.el files are on the way out (I'm speaking here about the
SM> `elpa' git repository, not the tarballs distributed from elpa.gnu.org).
SM> Currently only `auctex', `sokoban' and `uni-confusables' are left which
SM> use a <foo>-pkg.el and those should be fixed as well.

OK, I won't bother.  `uni-confusables' is mine actually; what do I need
to do exactly?

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:27:34 -0500 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote: 

SM> Looks good, please commit it, and I'll install it into elpa.gnu.org.

OK; done.  I assumed you don't keep a ChangeLog, but if you need the
entry let me know.

Thanks
Ted