Package: elpa-org
Version: 9.5.2+dfsh-4
Severity: serious
Installing elpa-org package to current Debian testing (bookworm) results
in older Org version than Org shipped with Emacs. I consider it as a
really bad surprise for people who will upgrade from bullseye when
bookworm becomes stable.
elpa-org:
emacs -q --batch -l org -f org-version
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
Loading debian-ispell (native compiled elisp)...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...
Org mode version 9.5.2 (9.5.2 @ /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/org-9.5.2/)
Built-in Org is newer:
emacs -Q --batch -l org -f org-version
Org mode version 9.5.5 (release_9.5.5 @ /usr/share/emacs/28.2/lisp/org/)
It would be preferable to provide Org-9.6 version by the elpa-org Debian
package, but it is too late for frozen testing.
I suggest to ship *empty* elpa-org package instead expecting that it
should provide better experience during upgrade from bullseye to
bookworm and later if real elpa-org will be provided.
An alternative is changing emacs-el metadata to replace elpa-org <
9.5.5. and to provide elpa-org. However it is undesirable from the
standpoint of further upgrades to up to date elpa-org.
I beg you pardon if I overestimated severity of the issue.
Please, provide a stub as elpa-org instead of outdated Org mode version.
