Re: How does ELPA work?

[Michael Albinus]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

>> Thanks. However, I haven't seen the files in the elpa branch of Emacs
>> 24. Reading the rewritten admin/notes/elpa, it looks like I shall add
>> them there. Right?
>
> They are there.  Maybe your copy of the branch is not up to date?
>
> Maybe you tried to do `bzr update', but did not bind your branch (in
> which case you should have done `bzr pull' to pull in changes)?

That's it, yes. You see, I'm an occasional bzr user only ...

> The elpa bzr branch works a bit differently.  There we keep the packages
> in extracted (source) form, because the elpa branch does not itself
> function as a package archive.  Instead, we run a script to deploy the
> package archive from it.

Is it correct to continue updating this branch from now on? If yes,
where shall I document changes? ChangeLog in packages/debbugs-0.1?

Or shall I send a new tar file?

Best regards, Michael.