Version Errors in Emacs packages

[Charalampos Mitrodimas]

Hello Russell,

Since I encountered the same issue with you a couple of months before, I 
think it might help you looking at 
https://launchpad.net/~kelleyk/+archive/ubuntu/emacs.

Best regards,

Charalampos


On 27/2/23 7:15 PM, Russell Almond wrote:
> I'm getting a number of errors when installing emacs packages from the 
> melpa/elpa library.  The elpa library is serving packages that are 
> related to version 28.x of Emacs, but the Ubuntu 22.04 and 22.10 
> packages are still at 27.1.
>
> This is causing issues which is forcing me to recompile all of the 
> emacs packages I download.
>
> The simplest solution from my perspective would be to bump the Ubuntu 
> emacs package to use version 28 (or add an optional version 28 
> package).  As version 28 has been around for a year now, it should be 
> stable.
>
> [Flatpack and snap are not options.  The sandboxing causes emacs to 
> behave strangely under flatpak; haven't tried snap.]
>
> Thanks,
>   --Russell Almond
>
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