Hello, On Sat 21 Jun 2025 at 05:36pm +02, Micha Lenk wrote: > Hi Sean, > > > > Am 20. Juni 2025 18:08:31 MESZ schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>: >>Heya, after upgrading (a while ago) to the Emacs backported version in >>subject, I've faced a number of issues with IDE-like features, which >>took me a while to understand and fix. The symptom was eglot failing to >>start (due to undefined variables). The fix was to remove the separate >>packages elpa-eglot and elpa-project, making happy their now integrated >>counterparts in Emacs core. I haven't investigated this any deeper than >>this, but I thoughts you might want to hear about this and consider the >>adding an explicit Conflict from Emacs to these two packages (at least), >>to avoid similar issues for other users. > > In March you helped with backporting dh-elpa, so, do you have by chance some > knowledge or advice how to cope with that situation best? This is a longstanding problem with Emacs addons in Debian. The separately packaged versions always override the ones in Emacs core. Our solution for now is just to keep the separately packaged versions up-to-date. -- Sean Whitton
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