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bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is
From: |
Rudolf Schlatte |
Subject: |
bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:46:54 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (darwin) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:
>
>>> I forgot to mention the current error message. The message is for example:
>>>
>>> "package emacs-27.1 unavailable"
>>>
>>> See https://github.com/minad/vertico/issues/217 for the original bug
>>> report when a user tried to install a package from GNU ELPA on Emacs 26,
>>> while the package requires Emacs 27.
>>
>> On the other hand, `list-packages` refuses to mark the package as
>> installable. So maybe nothing needs to be done here? In any case it is a
>> very minor issue. You can probably judge better if people stumbled
>> before over this error message. Otherwise feel free to close the issue!
>
> I think it makes sense to make this error message better -- people may
> be calling `package-install' explicitly.
>
> It'd be easier to debug this if I had a recipe for reproduction, though.
> Do you have one handy?
I think I can reproduce this via `package-install-from-buffer', with the
buffer containing the following (the error message is "Package
'emacs-30.1' is unavailable"):
;;; package-try.el --- reproducing bug #54747 -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
;; Author: Rudi Schlatte <rudi@constantly.at>
;; Version: 1.0
;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "30.1"))
;; Keywords: bugs
;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation, version 3.
;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
;;; Commentary:
;; Open this file, then install via `package-install-from-buffer'
(provide 'package-try)
;;; package-try.el ends here
- bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required, Daniel Mendler, 2022/04/06
- Message not available
- bug#54747: Acknowledgement (28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required), Daniel Mendler, 2022/04/06
- bug#54747: Acknowledgement (28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required), Daniel Mendler, 2022/04/06
- bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/04/07
- bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required, Daniel Mendler, 2022/04/07
- bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/04/08
- bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required, Daniel Mendler, 2022/04/08
- bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/04/09
- bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required, Daniel Mendler, 2022/04/09
- bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required,
Rudolf Schlatte <=
- bug#54747: 28.1.50; package.el - Better error message if newer Emacs is required, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/04/08