Re: policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru,  phillip.lord@russet.org.uk,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 06:37:41 -0800
> 
> > By "branch" here do you mean an elpa.git branch?  If so, we can have a
> > single elpa.git branch where each package is represented by a suitable
> > commit, right?  For example, we can have a "stable" branch in
> > elpa.git, where the last commit of each package corresponds to the
> > latest stable version of that package.  Is that possible?
> 
> Yes, you could create a branch that merges all the bundled packages
> (from their separate branches) together,
> 
> However, if you then make changes in that merged branch (which we
> definitely want to support), it is not simple to propagate them back to
> the separate branches; you have to cherry-pick.

I don't think we want to maintain the bundled packages inside the
Emacs repository.  IOW, the flow of changes should be unidirectional:
from elpa.git to emacs.git, but not in the other direction.