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29.0.60; Not easy at all to upgrade :core packages like Eglot

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Message #224 received at 62720 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 62720 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, joaotavora <at> gmail.com,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#62720: 29.0.60; Not easy at all to upgrade :core packages
 like Eglot
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:54:37 +0300

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
> Cc: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>,
>   monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
>   larsi <at> gnus.org,  62720 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 13:20:27 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
> >> Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,  larsi <at> gnus.org,
> >>   62720 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:18:08 +0100
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> >>  Btw, why, when I do "M-x list-packages RET", I see Eglot in red with
> >> >>  Status "incompat"?  If I press RET on its name, I see
> >> >> 
> >> >>    Package eglot is incompatible.
> >> >> 
> >> >>         Status: Incompatible because it depends on uninstallable packages.
> >> >> 
> >> >>  Why is that?
> >> >> 
> >> >> No idea. Is this with our without my patch?
> >> >
> >> > Without.
> >> 
> >> I can't reproduce this in a recent emacs-29.  Here's what I start Emacs
> >> with
> >> 
> >> HOME=`mktemp -d` && src/emacs -Q -f list-packages
> >> 
> >> I get:
> >> 
> >>      Status: Available from gnu -- [Install]
> >
> > I did just
> >
> >   emacs -Q
> >   M-x list-packages RET
> >
> > and I still see what I described.
> >
> > I get the same if I point HOME to a scratch empty directory.
> >
> > Maybe it's a Windows thing? why are some dependencies marked as "not
> > available"?
> >
> >   Package eglot is incompatible.
> >
> >        Status: Incompatible because it depends on uninstallable packages.
> >       Archive: gnu
> >       Version: 1.14
> >        Commit: 8125d4cfc5605ead9102b7d823c4241029eb76cc
> >       Summary: The Emacs Client for LSP servers
> >      Requires: emacs-26.3, jsonrpc-1.0.16, flymake-1.2.1,
> > 		 project-0.9.8 (not available), xref-1.6.2 (not available),
> > 		 eldoc-1.14.0, seq-2.23 (not available),
> > 		 external-completion-0.1 (not available)
> 
> On GNU/Linux: I have experienced a similar issue to this one in the
> past, but found that it resolved itself without any action on my end
> after a while.  Sadly I did not take the time to investigate what is
> going on, but I believe that this is a subtle bug in package.el.

I've now tried on GNU/Linux (one of gnu.org machines), and I see the
same there: eglot, project, and use-package are marked as "incompat".

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