bug#23607: Please apply this patched function to package.el in Emacs 25.

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> FWIW, I think this will break the dash package which includes
>>> a dev/ert.el file with autoload cookies in it and those shouldn't be
>>> placed into the dash-autoloads.el file.
>> What kind of breakage do you have in mind?
>
> The autoloads for the real ert.el will be overridden by those from
> dash-autoloads.el which will say that for example that ert-deftest
> should be autoloaded from "dev/ert.el".

It seems like the proposed patch would introduce breaking changes, and
the bug report stalled at that point.  So it seem unlikely that there'll
be further progress in this bug report, and I'm closing it.

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