SLIME 2.17 and macrostep on MELPA stable: needs 0.9, only 0.8 available?

[Stas Boukarev]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:55 AM, Georges Ko <gko at gko.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When trying to install SLIME 2.17 on MELPA stable, it needs
> macrostep-0.9, but only 0.8 is available.
>
> Can this explicit dependency be removed in SLIME, as macrostep.el is
> already in lib? Or make 0.9 available on MELPA stable?
Slime ships macrostep.el, so, how come MELPA doesn't like it? (I don't
use MELPA).

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With best regards, Stas.