GNU bug report logs - #72160
29.3; package buglet

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2023 <at> jovi.net>

Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 29.3

Fixed in version 31.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 72160 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-hacker2023 <at> jovi.net>
Subject: bug#72160: 29.3; package buglet
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 04:43:41 +0000

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> We can improve on that error message, but is there any use-case for
>> denoting a package by a string?
>
> +1
>
> The error message is poor, but accepting strings here seems like it
> would just encourage bad practices.

Any thoughts on `package-install` and `package-upgrade`?
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