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Bug#1103033: dh-elpa: Handle version of built-in package better

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Hello,

On Sun 13 Apr 2025 at 06:28pm -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:

> Package: dh-elpa
> Version: 2.1.9
> Severity: wishlist
>
> A recent bug#1101304 shows some limitation of version handling of
> dh-elpa for packages that are both built-in and packaged separately.
> Currently, dh-elpa can mark a package as packaged separately, and then
> detect the version from an addon comment header, much like non-built-in
> packages.  However, when a built-in package is sufficiently new, an
> addon can directly depend on Emacs itself without requiring the
> separately packaged version.

Right.

> As an improvement to avoid requiring the separated packaged version, for
> a package `foo' that is built-in, if the packaged version meets the
> requirement of an addon, ${elpa:Depends} can just generate "Emacs (>=
> <current version>)"; otherwise generate "elpa-foo (>= <required
> version>)" as before.

There are a couple of options here:

- Emacs adds versioned Provides: and then it satisfies the dependencies
  without the dependencies getting more complicated

- We generate dependencies "elpa-foo (>= ...) | emacs (>= ...)".

I think I prefer the former, because it retains the possibility of not
installing Emacs along with addons, an invariant we've had for a while.
But what's your opinion?

> Implementation wise, AFAIK there is no public API to query the version
> of a built-in package, so for now one may need to inspect
> `package--built-versions' directly.  Not sure whether upstream would
> implement an API for querying built-package versions.

I think they probably would, if you'd like to ask about it.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Bug#1103033: dh-elpa: Handle version of built-in package better Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2025-04-14 03:40 +0200
  Bug#1103033: dh-elpa: Handle version of built-in package better Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-04-14 04:50 +0200
    Bug#1103033: dh-elpa: Handle version of built-in package better Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2025-04-14 06:00 +0200
      Bug#1103033: dh-elpa: Handle version of built-in package better Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-04-14 06:30 +0200
        Bug#1103033: dh-elpa: Handle version of built-in package better Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2025-04-14 06:40 +0200

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