From e2f3b0f16eb34ac6f4941ddcf5b8ee24642656fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 14:46:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 6aa82e576d9..4f1ac5a5dac 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) -- 2.39.5