Since Emacs 27 the package cl is deprecated, the replacement is
cl-lib, which is available since Emacs 24.3.
This patch replaces cl by cl-lib and drops support for Emacs versions
less than 24.3. Dropping older Emacsen is required, because cl-lib is
a builtin starting from version 24.3 and doesn't need an extra package
from ELPA.
Testcases for past issues still contain cl. Most of them seem to be
broken and need further investigation.
This patch is tested with test/run-ert.sh, which outputs:
Ran 10 tests, 10 results as expected, 0 unexpected (2021-01-30 13:24:54+0100, 0.672122 sec)
1 expected failures
and manually by daily usage for a month now.
This makes it easier to run tests interactively and inspect the
results afterward, because the variables such as "el-get-sources" that
were set for the tests are still bound to the values they had during
the test.