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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:55:17 +0200

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

I thought Basil explained this: it's some bug in package.el from Emacs
28.