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Bug#1051965: compat-el: new upstream release 29.1.4.2 needed by elpa-hl-todo/sid



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Lev Lamberov <dogsleg@debian.org> writes:

> Пт 15 сен 2023 @ 14:25 David Bremner <david@tethera.net>:
>
>> Lev Lamberov <dogsleg@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>>> elpa-hl-todo has a versioned depends which is wrong.
>>>
>>> It is not wrong. It is as it is stated in the code, and as it is
>>> detected by dh-elpa.
>>>
>>> Personally, I don't see any problem here. The hl-todo-el package is just
>>> waiting for the latest upstream version of complat-el. There's no hurry
>>> to make its way into testing right now. From my point of view there is
>>> only a wishlist bug requesting the latest upstream version of compat-el
>>> to be uploaded into unstable.
>>
>> Yeah, I see what you mean, but the versioned depends is unsatisfiable in
>> unstable, so it doesn't make sense to upload the package to unstable,
>> unless there is something weird like a circular dependency. 
>>
>> I don't think it's OK for packages in unstable to be uninstallable in
>> unstable. It certainly meets the textbook definition of a release
>> critical bug, since nobody can actually use the package.
>
> Unstable is... well, unstable. Sometimes things break there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> There's no point in removing either compat-el or hl-todo-el from testing
> because of this.
>
> Regards,
> Lev

Prepared a merge request[1] to update compat-el to 29.1.4.2.  Also added
back "+dfsg" to version as we drop compat.texi to be DFSG-compatible.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/compat-el/-/merge_requests/1

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