Eli, how are you?  I hope well.

This change:

commit 6b8957852476e4ba31873424aa8f81d9e55bc34c
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date:   Thu Dec 9 17:01:57 2021 +0200

    ; * lisp/progmodes/flymake.el: Update the minimum Emacs version.

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/flymake.el b/lisp/progmodes/flymake.el
--- a/lisp/progmodes/flymake.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/flymake.el
@@ -9,1 +9,1 @@
-;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "26.1") (eldoc "1.1.0") (project "0.7.1"))
+;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "28.1") (eldoc "1.1.0") (project "0.7.1"))

breaks "downstream" users of flymake.el as a "core" package, eglot.el
most notably.

Can you explain it?  I'm not 100% sure if we have discussed this before.
If we have, I'm very sorry, but I forgot the context.

Thanks,
João

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:54 AM João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:50 AM Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >>>>> On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 09:20:07 +0000, João Távora <
>> joaotavora@gmail.com> said:
>>
>>     João> I'm not in front of my computer right now, but as far as I
>> recall, there is
>>     João> a note in the preamble of flymake.el asking maintainers not to
>> use
>>     João> functionality incompatible with the given emacs dependency.
>>
>> There is, and the current flymake.el says emacs-28.
>>
>
> Does it?  That's news to me.  It shouldn't, I think.  That breaks a lot of
> downstream
> users, eglot.el most notably.
>
> I have to M-x vc-region-history that bit.
>
> João
>
>
>

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João Távora