bug#65023: 29.1.50; Tramp 2.6.1.1 cannot be installed as ELPA package

[Jim Porter]

On 8/7/2023 8:28 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> > > This makes the 'package-data' argument never be nil, which avoids
> > > running the broken code. I'd be a little worried about publishing this
> > > without further testing, but hopefully it (or something like it) could
> > > be a solution until 29.2 is released...
> >
> > I've tried to apply this change, but it doesn't work as expected yet.
>
> Finally, I've decided to add the following to the Tramp README on ELPA:

Hmm, yeah, if my attempt didn't work reliably, this is probably the best 
solution for now (unless we want to spend a lot more time on this).

Maybe this is something that the "compat" patch should handle, or maybe 
there should even be a separate GNU ELPA package for Emacs hotfixes? I'm 
not sure if this would be too much extra maintenance burden though...