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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Release 9.1.12
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:09:34 +0200
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Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> Speaking of which... IIRC one of the reasons for not having
>
>   (defconst org-version "9.1.12")
>
> in org.el was to having merge conflicts.

I don't remember this issue.

> Does having "Version: 9.1.12" in org.el means we can switch back
> to having (defconst org-version "9.1.12") there as well?
>
> Could it fix the very annoying "I-don't-know-what-Org-version-is
> running-within-my-Emacs" issue?
>
> I'm aware that M-x org-version RET is more informative today,
> but I also see just too many people struggling with the current
> way of setting the version.

I don't understand what you mean by "setting the version". I probably do
not understand the problem you are describing to its full extent, but
I think Version: keyword (necessary for ELPA) and `org-version' are
enough. Yet another way to defined the Org version would be asking for
trouble.