Subject: Re: bug#76978: [PATCH] package.el: Add built-in version check and loaded package marking

From: Ship Mints <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:03:00 -0400

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU
Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > Package marginalia is installed.
> >
> >      Status: Installed in ‘marginalia-2.0/’. Delete
> >     Version: 2.0
> >      Commit: c51fd9e4d4258543e0cd8dedda941789163bec5a
> >      ...
> > Other versions: 1.8 (installed), 2.0 (gnu, activated), 20250317.1632
> (melpa).
>
> IIUC this is a package for which you have two versions installed (1.8
> and 2.0), right?
>

With the patch in https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=76568
duplicates
will be harder to install.