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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:48:56 -0400
> 
> > For packages which already have some "version" string somewhere, why
> > cannot we teach package.el to look for them, when it doesn't find the
> > "Version:" header?
> 
> This Version: header is not used by package.el, by the way: instead
> it's used (on Emacs's master) by autoload.el, and on elpa.git it's
> used by the admin/archive-contents.el.

Thanks for the correction.  My suggestion still stands, though.