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31.0.50; use-package cannot override a built in package

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Message #14 received at 75328 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah <at> everybody.org>,
 Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: 75328 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75328: 31.0.50; use-package cannot override a built in package
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 20:21:50 +0200

> From: "Mark A. Hershberger" <mah <at> everybody.org>
> Cc: 75328 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 10:50:21 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Did you try customizing package-install-upgrade-built-in?
> 
> Yes.  I also reported this to Jonas[1] and in the following discussion
> he suggested that and I tried it[2].
> 
> The following does not check out the transient repository into
> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/:
> 
>     rm -rf ~/.emacs.d &&
>     echo '(setq package-install-upgrade-built-in t)
>     (use-package transient :vc (:url "https://github.com/magit/transient" :rev :newest) :ensure t)' > ~/.emacs &&
>     ~/bin/emacs

Philip, shouldn't package-install-upgrade-built-in allow upgrading a
built-in package via use--package's :vc keyword?

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