Subject: bug#61048: 28.2; Installing Eglot doesn't pull transitive Xref dependency

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:44:46 +0200

On 26/01/2023 18:33, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: João Távora<[email-masked]>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:04:33 +0000
>> Cc: "Basil L. Contovounesios"<[email-masked]>,[email-masked],[email-masked]
>>
>>   I'm okay with this installed on emacs-29, unless Dmitry or João have
>>   better ideas or objections.
>>
>> It's fine, but tis really a package.el bug, methinks.
> AFAIU, the change Basil proposed is exactly meant to help package.el
> DTRT here.  It needs this information about dependencies to be
> accurate.

It should have this information already: project 0.9.3 depends on xref 
1.4.0.

That dependency version goes as far back as project 0.8.3.