Emacs Package Updation Checklist

I’ve never updated my Emacs packages until recently, because Emacs is where all my writing happens, and so I’m justifiably paranoid. But then some packages stopped working, due to various circumstances 1 and an update solved it. So I’ve decided to update my packages once a quarter, so that I don’t lose days yak shaving when something goes wrong and I handle breakage on my terms and not the…