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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 26/01/2023 18:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

Sure.

I just thought you disagreed with that Joao said.