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27.2; NonGNU ELPA: helm does not install dependencies

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From: Xingyu Pu <pu.stshine <at> gmail.com>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 53805 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53805: 27.2; NonGNU ELPA: helm does not install dependencies
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 03:19:11 +0800

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Maybe create a new tag for that?

Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net> 于 2022年2月7日周一 上午2:01写道：

>
> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
> >>> The scripts try to handle those problems by cleaning after themselves,
> >>> but apparently not well enough because I've already had to go and
> >>> manually unwedge the system for a few packages that have their own
> >>> `<pkg>-pkg.el` file (`helm` and `helm-core` being among those I've had
> >>> to manually unwedge :-( ).
> >>
> >> Not sure to understand this, what do you mean by unwedge? (sorry didn't
> >> find the translation, "décoincer" perhaps?).
> >
> > "décoincer" is what I was thinking, yes.  Concretely, it means I have to
> > log into `elpa.gnu.org` and manually `git reset --hard` at the right
> > spot otherwise the cron job keeps giving me an error on the offending
> package.
>
> Ok thanks.
>
> > It's due to a bug in `elpa-admin.el`, but it's one I haven't been able
> > to fix yet (and already "fixed it" once, so there's a chance that if
> > I "fix it" this time it still won't really be fixed).
>
> Ok.
>
> >> What I could do is creating a new file helm-core.el with only the needed
> >> informations e.g. package-requires and add as well the package-requires
> >> infos in helm.el, this would work for both Melpa and Elpa (after
> >> removing the *pkg.el files).
> >> WDYT?
> >
> > That's the recommended way, yes.
>
> Ok, so I have applied your patch, thanks.
> I have removed the emacs and async dependencies in helm.el as we already
> do this in helm-core.el (as suggested in your FIXME).
>
> --
> Thierry
>

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