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27.0.50; package-install of package with unversioned Package-Requires fails due to unsatisfiable requirements

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From: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee <at> linaro.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.0.50; package-install of package with unversioned
 Package-Requires fails due to unsatisfiable requirements
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:02:40 +0000

I originally triggered this bug while trying to upgrade packages from
MELPA however I can replicate by browsing to the file lusty-explorer
from the repo and executing M-x package-install-file. According to the
docs the line:

  ;; Package-Requires: (cl-lib dired)

is valid and the version should be defined as 0 - however this somehow
gets converted into trying to install dired-0. The following is the
relevant dumps from my logs:

In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 13, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2019-12-03 built on zen
Repository revision: 16ce6dbef279bda70b4d60b4d2d0aff008bfa5f7
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12004000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

Recent messages:
Searched 1/1 files
#s(package-desc lusty-explorer (3 1) "Dynamic filesystem explorer and buffer switcher" ((cl-lib (0)) (dired (0))) single nil nil ((:keywords "convenience" "files" "matching" "tools") (:url . "https://github.com/sjbach/lusty-emacs")) nil)
uncompressing package.el.gz...done
uncompressing package.el.gz...done
Searched 0/1 files
Searched 1/1 files
#s(package-desc lusty-explorer (3 1) "Dynamic filesystem explorer and buffer switcher" ((cl-lib (0)) (dired (0))) single nil nil ((:keywords "convenience" "files" "matching" "tools") (:url . "https://github.com/sjbach/lusty-emacs")) nil)
[mu4e] Update process returned with non-zero exit code
[]Show []Show verbose [q]Close [c]Copy hash []Diff [M-w]Copy message [,]Go Parent [q]Quit  [2 times]
Quit [3 times]
package-compute-transaction: Package ‘dired-0’ is unavailable
Configured using:
 'configure --with-x-toolkit=lucid --prefix=/home/alex/src/emacs/install
 --with-modules --with-imagemagick'

Configured features:
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GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ
M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11 XDBE XIM MODULES
THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP

Important settings:
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Major mode: elisp

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  auto-fill-function: yas--auto-fill
  transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
/home/alex/mysrc/edit-with-emacs.git/servers/edit-server hides /home/alex/.emacs.d/elpa/edit-server-20181016.1125/edit-server
/home/alex/.emacs.d/elpa/circe-20191202.1028/shorten hides /home/alex/.emacs.d/elpa/tracking-20171210.2102/shorten
/home/alex/.emacs.d/elpa/circe-20191202.1028/tracking hides /home/alex/.emacs.d/elpa/tracking-20171210.2102/tracking

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Memory information:
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 (buffers 1000 244))

-- 
Alex Bennée

Message #8 received at 38473 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee <at> linaro.org>
Cc: 38473 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38473: 27.0.50; package-install of package with unversioned
 Package-Requires fails due to unsatisfiable requirements
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:09:37 +0100

tags 38473 + notabug
close 38473
thanks

Alex Bennée <alex.bennee <at> linaro.org> writes:

> I originally triggered this bug while trying to upgrade packages from
> MELPA however I can replicate by browsing to the file lusty-explorer
> from the repo and executing M-x package-install-file. According to the
> docs the line:
>
>   ;; Package-Requires: (cl-lib dired)
>
> is valid and the version should be defined as 0 - however this somehow
> gets converted into trying to install dired-0. The following is the
> relevant dumps from my logs:

The dired dependency is wrong, since there is no such built-in
package.  "dired" is instead part of the "emacs" package.

This seems to have fixed in lusty-explorer already.[1]

I was considering if we should take some extra measures to allow these
kinds of dependencies, but honestly it seems better to just ask
package developers to get it right.

I'm therefore closing this as notabug.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

Footnotes:
[1]  https://github.com/sjbach/lusty-emacs/commit/1fbd5cfbdbb8ed744b5a141648febf620bbf5a84

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