Re: Adding async package to GNU ELPA

[Artur Malabarba]

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> ~/src/elpa> make
> Generating autoloads for packages/async/async-autoloads.el
> Missing ‘version’ header
> GNUmakefile:132: recipe for target 'packages/async/async-autoloads.el' failed
> make: *** [packages/async/async-autoloads.el] Error 255
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>
> The async package has an own async-pkg.el. But this doesn't seem to be
> taken into account; instead a ;;; Version: header in async.el seems to
> be needed. I could fix it, but I don't want to touch the inherited
> files. What else could I do?

The package archives take care of creating the -pkg.el file for you,
any reason why you want to provide one yourself?