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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: emacs-29 9b775ddc057 1/2: ; * etc/EGLOT-NEWS: Fix wording of last change.
Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 22:38:52 +0300

> Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 22:14:13 +0300
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> > What about installation from the list-packages menu: will it upgrade a
> > built-in package if package-install-upgrade-built-in is non-nil?
> 
> Installation or upgrade?
> 
> package-menu-mark-upgrades ('U') is not affected by 
> package-install-upgrade-built-in. It won't.

Shouldn't it?

> But a version from ELPA can still be installed by using 'i' in the 
> list-packages menu. Just as we've written in the docstrings.

That was stated at the very beginning of bug#62720.

> > If package-upgrade was not in Emacs 28, how did users upgrade
> > installed packages in Emacs 28 and before?
> 
> Using package-menu-mark-upgrades ('U').

So we should allow that, at least as an optional behavior in Emacs 29,
right?

> We should probably focus on getting Emacs 29 out soon

Why do you think this is not what happens?



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