> So you are saying that other people mostly delete old versions from
> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/, and that's why this problem was not reported until
> now, is that right?
Right.

> What are our recommendations, if any, for cleaning up old versions of
> ELPA packages?
I had old versions of packages mostly because I had problems with moving
between emacs versions in the past.
For example, I had to roll back some package versions along with emacs
version downgrading (after unsuccessful upgrade).
But now my config is stabilized and I just deleted old versions manually a
few days ago.

On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 6:53 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Евгений Бойков <artscan@list.ru>
> > Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 18:43:13 +1000
> > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, philipk@posteo.net, 63757@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > I wonder how come this issue never came up until now, in all the time
> > > since commit fb87d500, 9 months ago?  What are you, Евгений, do that
> > > bumps into this issue, that other people don't do?  Or does this
> > > affect only very specific packages?
> >
> > I moved my everyday working emacs instance to 29.0.91 and got almost 2%
> completely broken
> > packages.
> > I rarely delete really old versions from my ~/.emacs.d/elpa.
> > If your package-user-dir is cleaned more often, you may not notice that
> your loaded packages have
> > slightly different old versions.
> > This can affect any package if it has few versions.
>
> So you are saying that other people mostly delete old versions from
> ~/.emacs.d/elpa/, and that's why this problem was not reported until
> now, is that right?
>
> What are our recommendations, if any, for cleaning up old versions of
> ELPA packages?
>


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