bug#61048: 28.2; Installing Eglot doesn't pull transitive Xref dependency

[Stefan Kangas]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii [2023-01-25 07:01 -0500] wrote:
>
>>> Cc: João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com>,
>>>  Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
>>> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:20:27 +0000
>>> From:  "Basil L. Contovounesios" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>>>
>>> At first glance this sounds like a package.el bug, but since there won't
>>> be an Emacs 28.3, and until someone checks whether it's present in Emacs
>>> 29+, perhaps something like the following is needed as a workaround?
>>
>> I'm okay with this installed on emacs-29, unless Dmitry or João have
>> better ideas or objections.
>
> Thanks, done:
>
> Work around package.el transitive dependency bug
> f72a394716f 2023-01-27 00:36:55 +0000
> https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=f72a394716f
>
> Hopefully I'll find some time to look for the underlying bug soon.

Basil, did you make any progress here?  Thanks.