bug#44270: 24.5; EMMS failures while installing

[Yoni Rabkin]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:
>
>>> Indeed, I think EMMS should add a dependency on seq:
>>>
>>>     ;; Package-Requires: ((cl-lib "0.5") (seq "2.22"))
>>
>> The code which requires seq (in emms-browser.el) was added in 2017
>> (contemporaneous with Emacs 25.2), but of course Emacs 24.5 dates back
>> from 2015.
>>
>> Should I add a dependency on a particular version of Emacs in the
>> meantime?
>
> I think it's better if you add a dependency on seq actually.  The
> package system should automatically install it on old versions, and the
> GNU ELPA package has compatibility code that makes it work with Emacs
> version 24.x.

I've added seq as a requirement, bumped the version number, and pushed
to elpa.git.

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