Re: Reconsider defaults for use-package-vc-prefer-newest

[Suhail Singh]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> As long as the version tag tags the commit where the corresponding
> "Version:" entered the mainline, be it a merge-commit or a regular
> commit, the mismatch alert should not happen.

Would that be possible to implement?

My (perhaps mistaken) understanding was that the archives only track the
specific commits.  I.e., for a package that's in both NonGNU and MELPA
Stable, the latter could point to the merge commit whereas the former
would point to its ancestor.  In such a case, looking at simply the
commit hash and without checking out the source code it may not be
possible to identify that the commits are "equivalent".

-- 
Suhail