bug#11410: 24.1.50; package.el `emacs' package information is broken

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Surely the idea is for packages to refuse to even *install* under Emacs
> versions where they won't work (package.el displays an "emacs x.x not
> available" in this case.)
[...]
> That seems like a useful feature to me.

Preventing users to do what they want doesn't sound useful to me (as
I was recently reminded when gparted obnoxiously refused to work on my
USB stick, arguing that I need to be root to use it, even though I had
write-access to it, and then when I tried again as root it again refused
obnoxiously to move the partition arguing that it doesn't know the
file-system type (of course, in 99% of the cases moving a partition can
be done without paying any attention to the partition type)).  Note that
I reported such problems to gparted already years ago.  Hell, even
"gparted --help" complains if you're not root.  Next thing you know,
they'll change the access permissions to the gparted manpage so only
root can read it.

I guess a warning could be useful, yes.


        Stefan