Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>>> Now your function is working fine and nearly finish, did you think how
>>> you are going to distribute it? It seems you are going to merge it in
>>> master, but what about providing it as well as a Elpa package so that
>>> users of old emacs (at some point of course, say emacs-27) can use it to
>>> report bugs?
>>
>> I am not a fan of small ELPA packages, but what I'd like to bring up
>> again was the proposal to add package.el itself to ELPA.  I wrote a
>> patch in <873559q83j.fsf@posteo.net> that should arrange everything
>> necessary for this move, there are still a few points that should be
>> discussed in terms of stability and recovering from a possibly
>> inconsistent state.  I think I'll create a feature branch some day soon
>> to make the proposal more concrete.
>
> I have pushed the patch from that thread, together with a patch for
> package-vc and a custom command that would revert Emacs to use the
> built-in version of package.el.  The branch is called
> "feature/elpa-package", and I have added to tarballs with packages built
> by elpa-admin.el in case anyone wants to try out the packages.  I'll be
> testing these tarballs with older versions of Emacs, to see how that
> works out.

Thanks, looking forward for this to be available.

-- 
Thierry