Subject: bug#60990: 29.0.60; New seq release 2.24

From: Daniel Mendler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 19:32:39 +0200

On 9/4/23 19:05, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Daniel Mendler <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Hello Stefan,
>>
>> can we also get a new seq release 2.24 on ELPA? My report was about both
>> tagging a new seq version in Emacs and a new release on ELPA. Thanks!
> 
> Yes, it will be released on GNU ELPA automatically by the GNU ELPA once
> emacs-29 is merged to master.
> 
> Unfortunately, users of Emacs 29.1 will be able to "upgrade" to the
> identical version in GNU ELPA.
> 
> Users of Emacs 29.2 will not have that problem, though.

How is that? I thought that seq is not a :core package, since it
supports Emacs versions from before the introduction of cl-defgeneric.
It has different code which must be updated manually and as such doesn't
automatically get released.

Daniel