Re: ELPA ada-mode.release not updating

[Stefan Monnier]

Stefan Monnier [2022-10-24 11:25:25] wrote:
> Stephen Leake [2022-10-24 02:47:06] wrote:
>> I pushed a commit to bump the version of ada-mode to 4.3.0 41 hours ago,
>> but https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ada-mode.html still shows 4.2.1.
>> What's wrong?
>
> [ Hmm... I must be missing something.  In my world,
>   https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ada-mode.html shows version `7.2.1` and
>   elpa.git has version `7.3.beta1`.  I'll assume some gremlin swapped
>   the 4 and 7 keys on your keyboard.  ]
>
> We don't consider `7.3.beta1` as a "release", so elpa.gnu.org generated
> a tarball only for GNU-devel.

Oh, I think I understand what's going on.  You're using
a `:release-branch` thingy, but this specifies the release branch of the
upstream Git repository, whereas `ada-mode` doesn't have an
upstream repository.

For packages with a nil `:url`, the `:release-branch` happens to act
only as a boolean and the branch from which the code is fetched is
always `externals-release/<PKG>` for GNU ELPA and `elpa-release/<PKG>`
for NonGNU ELPA.

For some reason, the fact that there is no such branch for `ada-mode`
did not cause any error to be emitted in the cron job's reports :-(


        Stefan