> Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com> wrote:

> It needs a version number in order to be considered a package by
> `package.el'. There is a number of packages on the repositories which
> depend on `erc-5.3', and these currently can't be installed on emacs
> master because the dependency can't be met.

Is it as simple as a header with the version number, or does `erc-version'

need to respond with 5.3?

> We need to either ask these packages to rely on Emacs version instead
> of erc version, or come up with a way to indicate that a package
> should inherit emacs' version number, or go back to specifying erc's
> version.

I think we should definitely ask these packages to not rely on erc-version 5.3, but we can also try and keep the obsolete version number around until it doesn't break other packages.