David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> writes: > "Barak A. Pearlmutter" <ba...@pearlmutter.net> writes: > >> >> The current bug is somewhat deeper. If the elpa infrastructure can't >> handle emacs (< 24), then it probably shouldn't try to use it. This >> situation could come up if both emacs23 and emacs24 are installed, say, >> with update-alternatives set to point to emacs23. So even an explicit >> dependency on emacs24 won't completely address the issue. I think these >> considerations argue for explicit version testing, or careful feature >> testing, in the installation scripts. Although maybe dh-elpa (>= 0.13) >> is already doing this? > > The 0.13 dh-elpa install scripts explicitly blacklists (well, really > ignores) emacs23, but they don't know about emacs22. It seems like > kindof a corner case to me (since emacs22 isn't in oldoldstable), but I > don't mind also blacklisting emacs22 (and emacs21 for that matter). >
I have gone ahead and made this change to dh-elpa, as of 0.14 it ignores emacs 21 and 22 as well. I guess I missed a chance to ignore emacs20. d