bug#61048: 28.2; Installing Eglot doesn't pull transitive Xref dependency

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:44:46 +0200
> Cc: contovob@tcd.ie, 61048@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> 
> On 26/01/2023 18:33, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: João Távora<joaotavora@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:04:33 +0000
> >> Cc: "Basil L. 
> >> Contovounesios"<contovob@tcd.ie>,61048@debbugs.gnu.org,dgutov@yandex.ru
> >>
> >>   I'm okay with this installed on emacs-29, unless Dmitry or João have
> >>   better ideas or objections.
> >>
> >> It's fine, but tis really a package.el bug, methinks.
> > AFAIU, the change Basil proposed is exactly meant to help package.el
> > DTRT here.  It needs this information about dependencies to be
> > accurate.
> 
> It should have this information already: project 0.9.3 depends on xref 
> 1.4.0.
> 
> That dependency version goes as far back as project 0.8.3.

I thought Basil explained this: it's some bug in package.el from Emacs
28.