Hello, On Sun 07 May 2023 at 04:42PM -04, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Is there a practical argument against adding versioned Provides to > either emacs-common or emacs-el (as appropriate)? Something like > > Provides: elpa-org (= 9.5.5) > > The idea is that emacs-common (or -el) would replace elpa-org > 9.4.0+dfsg-1 from bullseye during the upgrade to bookworm, but that a > future bookworm-backport (or the future trixie package) of standalone > org-mode would replace the versioned semivirtual "elpa-org" package. I believe that changes of this nature are not appropriate at this stage of the freeze. I wish we had done something about this sooner, but elpa-org is undermaintained. I don't think we should kick it out, because having a slightly older Org seems less bad than also kicking out the rdeps, on balance. -- Sean Whitton
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