master e2f3b0f16e: Improve package.el error messages on too-old Emacsen

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

branch: master
commit e2f3b0f16eb34ac6f4941ddcf5b8ee24642656fc
Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Commit: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>

    Improve package.el error messages on too-old Emacsen
    
    * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-compute-transaction): Give a
    better error message on too-old Emacs versions (bug#54747).
---
 lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
index 6aa82e576d..4f1ac5a5da 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
@@ -1854,8 +1854,12 @@ SEEN is used internally to detect infinite recursion."
               (error "Need package `%s-%s', but only %s is available"
                      next-pkg (package-version-join next-version)
                      found-something))
-             (t (error "Package `%s-%s' is unavailable"
-                       next-pkg (package-version-join next-version)))))
+             (t
+              (if (eq next-pkg 'emacs)
+                  (error "This package requires Emacs version %s"
+                         (package-version-join next-version))
+                (error "Package `%s-%s' is unavailable"
+                       next-pkg (package-version-join next-version))))))
           (setq packages
                 (package-compute-transaction (cons found packages)
                                              (package-desc-reqs found)