OK, working with
$ apt-cache policy emacs
emacs:
Installed: 1:27.1+1-3
Candidate: 1:27.1+1-3
Version table:
*** 1:27.1+1-3 990
990 http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
tramp-version is a variable defined in ‘tramp-cmds.el’.
Its value is "2.4.3.27.1"
I.e., already about 11 versions deep on
https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/tramp.html
What's worse is:
A debian users visits
https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/tramp.html
and sees
To install this package, run in Emacs:
M-x package-install RET tramp RET
but as debian already has an old tramp,
so underneath his fingertips this expands to
tramp-theme !!!!
and unless he notices what happened,
he still can't advance beyond the old tramp version!
All he has done is install tramp-theme, not tramp.
Also
$ aptitude search elpa-|wc -l
343
$ w3m -dump -cols 999 https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/index.html|perl -nwle
'print if /^a/../^$/'|wc -l
276
So there are more elpa- packages in Debian than even on the official
elpa website!
Therefore I propose that all packages on the elpa website be
automatically included in Debian.
