bug#62720: 29.0.60; Not easy at all to upgrade :core packages like Eglot

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:23:05 +0300
> Cc: joaotavora@gmail.com, rpluim@gmail.com, philipk@posteo.net,
>  62720@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> > But note that this is not what João is saying.  He says 1.14 will not
> > be in Emacs 29.1, period.  No matter how long I will drag the pretest.
> > He certainly doesn't want to invest the effort of making Eglot 1.14
> > less dependent on latest changes in other packages, so as to make sure
> > we could drop Eglot 1.14 into Emacs 29 without risking any problems
> > elsewhere.  And that more or less seals the issue, effectively setting
> > your N to infinity.
> 
> I think you're simply talking past each other, and will essentially 
> agree on that "N weeks" thing outside of this discussion.

I wish.

> But also note that you added a complication: avoid bumping the required 
> dependencies. If the backport is not performed as-is and needs 
> additional changes (with extra shims, stubbed new features, etc, instead 
> of simply using new features from the latest eldoc.el), then you are not 
> just asking whether the maintainer thinks the new version is good and 
> stable, but also whether they are willing to expend extra effort 
> altering it and maintaining diverging versions of code.

Yes, noted.