bug#66985: 29.1; Issue with `package.el` upgrading builtin (edge-case)

[Sylvain Bougerel]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 3:25 PM Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> wrote:
> A short commit like this can be manually applied, and attributed to you,
> otherwise you should consult the CONTRIBUTING file in emacs.git for
> notes on how to format a patch and the commit message.

Thanks Philip, I'll read it for future reference. Feel free to make
the change as you see fit (as for attribution: this email chain is
enough)

> If you are really interested, you can take a look at bug#62720.

Thanks, I got the background now. I don't think it's necessary to go
further then.

>
> Nothing special, other than that I had been planning to re-write the
> function anyway, to make it simpler and re-usable by package-vc.

Let me know if you intend to maintain the same interface for
package-compute-transaction, in this case I can contribute a unit
test.