On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 12:01 PM Eli Zaretskii <
eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> Cc: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>,
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:20:27 +0000
> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Emacs 28 ships with Xref 1.3.0, and without Eglot. Eglot depends on
> Project 0.9.3 directly and on Xref 1.4.0 transitively. Yet package.el
> for some reason deems that the built-in Xref 1.3.0 satisfies this
> requirement, and does not pull a more recent version from GNU ELPA.
>
> [ BTW, there is nothing special about steps 1, 4, 6 in the recipe above:
> they just demonstrate that the expected version of Xref is missing. ]
>
> At first glance this sounds like a package.el bug, but since there won't
> be an Emacs 28.3, and until someone checks whether it's present in Emacs
> 29+, perhaps something like the following is needed as a workaround?
I'm okay with this installed on emacs-29, unless Dmitry or João have
better ideas or objections.
It's fine, but tis really a package.el bug, methinks.
João