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

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: artscan@list.ru,  monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  63757@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2023 09:19:28 +0000
>> 
>> >> It is new, and the simplest solution that should revert the issue could
>> >> be just to have `package-load-all-descriptors' sort the files when
>> >> loading descriptors.
>> >
>> > Can you show a patch for this, please?
>> 
>> Whoops, I forgot to attach a diff:
>
> Is that a reverse diff or something?  The code we have now already
> does sort the list...

No, the current code passes a non-nil NOSORT flag to `directory-files',
which inhibits sorting?