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Emacs: ^ in installed package list misses some upgrades

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>, 22628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Subject: bug#22628: Bug #22628 Hunting: Emacs: ^ in installed package list misses some upgrades
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:03:01 +0100

Hi!

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

> To be precise, the wish that Ludo wrote [2] is:
>
> <<
> 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”.
>>>
>
>
> What is the status of such? Does it still make sense?
> Personally, I do not feel the need of the series property, what the
> others think?

I think it’s the kind of thing that would be nice but is not often
useful, so the benefit/cost ratio may not be that high.  :-)

No objection to closing the bug!

Ludo’.

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