bug#74556: 30.0.92; Package upgrade can fail and results in deleted package

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: 74556@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:34:51 +0000
>> 
>> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > It might make sense to try and "deactivate" a package before installing
>> > the new package.  Looking into some second-try fallback for
>> > package-install to refresh the package index if a package was not found
>> > would also be a good idea ^^
>> 
>> This might do it?
>
> Philip, please install this on the emacs-30 branch, unless you see any
> problems with the change.  We'd like to make another pretest soon.

Done.  But we should keep the report open as there might be better
approaches to discuss in the future.