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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: bug#22628: Emacs: ^ in installed package list misses some upgrades
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:01:05 +0100
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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>, 22628@debbugs.gnu.org

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 02:49:50PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I think we need a different solution for packages that have several
> series.  For instance, we could have:
>   (define gnupg-2.0
>     (package …
>       (properties `((series . "2.0")))))
> and that would lead the various UIs to upgrade only to a package whose
> version prefix is “2.0”.
> WDYT?

This is so obvious that one wonders how we did not think of it earlier :-)

Andreas