Re: We need to properly obsolete emacs-terminal

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2025, at 2:17 PM, Peter Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2025, Michel Lind wrote:
>
>> When rolling out the rebuild of Emacs 30.1 in CentOS Hyperscale SIG, we
>> noticed package installation failures on hosts that have emacs-terminal
>> installed
>
> Hmm.  In the unlikely event someone actually depends on emacs-terminal, 
> maybe a failure is what they would want?
>
> I think it was incorrect that emacs-terminal depended on a specific 
> version of the emacs package.  Perhaps the answer is to briefly 
> resurrect emacs-terminal such that it depends on any version of emacs.  
> It could then be dropped again, staying on people’s systems forever if 
> that’s what they want.
>
Unpinning it to a specific Emacs version works for me too.

> OTOH, perhaps it isn’t worth the bother.
I was surprised when something broke in my rollout, so.. among the wider installed base of Fedora I suspect people might be tripped up.

Part of the problem, I think, is that the name is innocuous enough, people might have installed it when they don't need to, then leave it around, then get surprised when it blocks an update.

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