bug#37976: 27.0.50; Dependency reversal of seq-subseq and cl-subseq causes regression when using seq from ELPA

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hi Stefan,

is this issue on your radar?

Terje Larsen <terlar@gmail.com> writes:

> I meant the seq package provided by GNU ELPA repository. Guess I
> slipped on the keyboard there. My Emacs selects the seq25.el from
> ELPA.

His original report:

> Since the commit 0e4dd67aae8b10032317a29a6bd99d2d4a64c897 there is a
> regression for people using seq from MELPA.

> The dependency was reversed so cl-subseq is using seq-subseq, but before
> seq-subseq was using cl-subseq.

> What ended up happening now is that Emacs is using the new builtin cl-subseq
> from cl-extra. But using seq-subseq from MELPA which causes an infinite
> loop as they depend on eachother.

> What is the recommended way to solve this issue? I am not controlling
> using seq from MELPA since I am using a package that pulls in seq from
> MELPA as a dependency. For now I am considering to patch the seq in
> MELPA.


TIA,

Michael.