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Re: Bug#1020851: elpa-ement: fails to install along emacs



Hello,

On Fri 25 Nov 2022 at 09:47PM +01, Aymeric Agon-Rambosson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Le vendredi 25 novembre 2022 à 10:31, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> a écrit :
>
>> It would?  The highest version is meant to take precedence. That's a
>> feature of package.el.
>
> I run some version of emacs 28.1, which ships xref 1.3.0.
>
> I installed elpa-eglot, which depends on elpa-xref version 1.0.2.
>
> Since then, I have had the following :
>
> (find-library-name "xref")
> "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src/xref-1.0.2/xref.el"
>
> (locate-library "xref")
> "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/xref-1.0.2/xref.el"
>
> I do have /usr/share/emacs/28.1/lisp/progmodes in my load-path, which is the
> directory containing xref.el.gz.
>
> From what I can see, it would seem that /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp takes
> precedence over /usr/share/emacs/<emacs version>, rather than the highest
> library version.
>
> I'm not sure whether that is intended or not.

My understanding is that this is an upstream bug in Emacs, but ICBW.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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