bug#63757: 29.0.91 order of package paths changed: random old versions of packages in load-path

[Евгений Бойков]

> I wonder how come this issue never came up until now, in all the time
> since commit fb87d500, 9 months ago?  What are you, Евгений, do that
> bumps into this issue, that other people don't do?  Or does this
> affect only very specific packages?

I moved my everyday working emacs instance to 29.0.91 and got almost 2% completely broken packages.

I rarely delete really old versions from my ~/.emacs.d/elpa.
If your package-user-dir is cleaned more often, you may not notice that your loaded packages have slightly different old versions.

This can affect any package if it has few versions.

On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 6:06 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Евгений Бойков <artscan@list.ru>
> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 17:52:57 +1000
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, philipk@posteo.net, 63757@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Sort didn't exist before fb87d500
>
> -  (let ((pkg-descs (cdr (assq pkg-name package-alist))))
> +  (let ((pkg-descs (sort (cdr (assq pkg-name package-alist))
>
> We can fix incorrect sorting

I wonder how come this issue never came up until now, in all the time
since commit fb87d500, 9 months ago?  What are you, Евгений, do that
bumps into this issue, that other people don't do?  Or does this
affect only very specific packages?

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