GNU bug report logs - #22628
Emacs: ^ in installed package list misses some upgrades

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 22628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>, 22628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22628: Emacs: ^ in installed package list misses some upgrades
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:01:05 +0100

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I think we need a different solution for packages that have several
> series.  For instance, we could have:
>   (define gnupg-2.0
>     (package …
>       (properties `((series . "2.0")))))
> and that would lead the various UIs to upgrade only to a package whose
> version prefix is “2.0”.
> WDYT?

This is so obvious that one wonders how we did not think of it earlier :-)

Andreas
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