If you want to be cautious, I have somewhat higher confidence in the versions of Emacs packages published on the Debian repositories[1] than the ones on ELPA/ME

If you want to be cautious, I have somewhat higher confidence in the versions of Emacs packages published on the Debian repositories[1] than the ones on ELPA/MELPA. The downside is that not every package is packaged for Debian, and the versions are a bit stale. https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ELPA+&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ELPA+&searchon=n...