bug#67949: 29.1; package-vc-{install,upgrade} modifies tracked files

[Philip Kaludercic]

Sean Allred <allred.sean@gmail.com> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>> Sean Allred <allred.sean@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Even after years of elisp work, I guess I just don't distribute new
>>> packages often enough to remember this :-)
>>>
>>> Seems this is discussed in Info node "(elisp) Library Headers".
>>
>> So what do you say, is this something where we should try and "do at
>> least something", or just refer to the Elisp manual and close this
>> report?
>
> Sorry, I could've been more explicit :-) This bug report can be closed.
> As you noted, it's intended behavior, and the correct way to do it is
> already discussed in the manual.
>
> The only improvement / follow-up I can see would be a note about
> `*-pkg.el` files being 'reserved', but I'll leave that to a normal patch
> submission.
>
> Thanks for your help :-)

OK, I'll close the bug report then.  Thanks :)

> --
> Sean Allred