Re: GNU ELPA package for CC-mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:48:56 -0400
> 
> > For packages which already have some "version" string somewhere, why
> > cannot we teach package.el to look for them, when it doesn't find the
> > "Version:" header?
> 
> This Version: header is not used by package.el, by the way: instead
> it's used (on Emacs's master) by autoload.el, and on elpa.git it's
> used by the admin/archive-contents.el.

Thanks for the correction.  My suggestion still stands, though.