Re: emacs-29 9b775ddc057 1/2: ; * etc/EGLOT-NEWS: Fix wording of last change.

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 06/05/2023 21:44, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> > > > But if emptying ~/.emacs.d/elpa is not a frequent use case, why should
> > > > we care about it so much?  It sounds like bug#62720 and the entire
> > > > long dispute that followed were focused on this strange use pattern,
> > > > instead of talking about more reasonable upgrade scenarios?
> > > We focused on it because, apparently, using 'M-x package-install' worked
> > > in more cases in Emacs 28 than in Emacs 29. And some think it's
> > > important. And because 'package-upgrade' is not in Emacs 28 at all.
> > If package-upgrade was not in Emacs 28, how did users upgrade
> > installed packages in Emacs 28 and before?
> They invoked M-x list-packages, waited for the upgrade to appear,
> selected them with U and then executed the update with x.  This is what
> used to work, and what will continue to work.

Not for "active built-ins", though.