"J.P." writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >>>> Its installable via `package-install`, but not from the >>>> `package-menu-describe-package` because of this bug in that command. >>> >>> This indeed works interactively on Emacs 29. Thanks. >>> >>> However, ERC also supports versions 27 and 28. What's the recommended >>> way for folks to upgrade on those Emacsen? The least gruesome thing I >>> could conjure up is >>> >>> (package-install (car (alist-get 'erc package-archive-contents))) >> >> Do you mean that `package-install` won't work because the package is >> already installed? Hmm... yeah, that'd be a problem. >> >> I can see several ways to "fix" this, but I think the simplest would be Would one of those several ways possibly include overriding the `package-desc-extras' :maintainer item scraped by `lm-maintainers' with a spec item from an elpa-packages entry? I see that support for a `:maintainer' keyword was recently added, but it appears to serve some other purpose. Anyway, I've attached a sketch of what I'm trying to describe, but I'm rather unfamiliar with this program. Thanks. >> to change >> >> ;; Maintainer: Amin Bandali , F. Jason Park >> >> into >> >> ;; Maintainer: emacs-erc@gnu.org >> >> Would that be a problem? > > I'll learn to live with it if Amin (Cc'd) can.