Re: Sync up the org in emacs master to org maint branch?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'm massively unenthusiastic about this future.  Things in ELPA has to
>> be backwards-and-forwards compatible with a wide Emacs version range,
>
> no, they don't.
>
> That is one possible policy, but each package decides for itself whether
> to follow it. You can have
>
> ;; package-requires: ((emacs "25.2"))
>
> if you want.

That's technically correct.  (The best kind of correct, as they say.)
But for a package archive to be useful, it should support a range of
Emacs releases, otherwise users will be sad.

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