Re: [NonGNU ELPA] Htmlize version 1.57

[Stefan Monnier]

Hi Hrvoje,

Hrvoje Nikšić [2021-08-26 11:44:00] wrote:
> Is there a way to have ELPA track the "stable" branch rather than
> "master"? The email is just wrong, as htmlize 1.57 has *not* been
> released - I've just pushed the version bump to the branch that holds
> development ("master").

Right, the general rule is that a release is
made from the commit that changes the `Version:` header, so indeed
setting it to `1.57` before the actual release leads to trouble.

There are various options to avoid the problem:

- One way is to set your `Version:` to something like `1.57-snapshot` or
  `1.57-git` during development (or leave it set at the previous
  release's version) and then set it to `1.57` for the release itself.

- Another is to use a separate branch for the releases.

Since you seem to have a dedicated release branch already, I installed
the patch below to nongnu.git so releases will be made from the
`stable` branch.  Sorry for not noticing earlier,

BTW, the email is sadly right: an htmlize-1.57 package has been released
on http://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/htmlize.html :-(


        Stefan


diff --git a/elpa-packages b/elpa-packages
index b7d4a4bd1..4aafd5460 100644
--- a/elpa-packages
+++ b/elpa-packages
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@
   :readme "README.md")
 
  ("htmlize"            :url "https://github.com/hniksic/emacs-htmlize";
-  :ignored-files ("htmlize.el.html"))
+  :ignored-files ("htmlize.el.html")
+  :release-branch "stable"))
 
  ("inf-clojure"                :url 
"https://github.com/clojure-emacs/inf-clojure";
   :ignored-files ("test")