On Wed, Dec 14 2016, Carlo Zancanaro wrote 
> I was trying to import some elpa packages recently and found 
> some  issues, so here are some patches to fix them.
>
> 1. call-with-downloaded-file had behaviour different to how it 
> was  documented to behave. This was primarily a problem when 
> trying to  import packages with no description (eg. 
> color-theme-solarized on  melpa).
>
> 2. Package dependencies need to be propagated so that emacs can 
> find them.

Has anyone looked at this? This is relatively minor, but now that the
0.12.0 release is done I thought a ping might be appropriate.