Re: [Q]: Emacs CVS status

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Xavier Maillard <zedek_ML_@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> Hello,

Hi,

> I know this has surely been discussed not that far but AFAIK, no
> announcement has been done (yet) and so forth I need informations about
> this point.

Me, guilty! :-P

> SO here is the question: what is the current emacs cvs integration
> status in Debian (experimental) ?
>
> If any testing version is available, I would be happy to test it here
> and get rid of my "daily manual upgrade" of emacs CVS ;)
>
> Please tell...

So the whole story: during last December I created an emacs-snapshot
package from the current debian package scheme.
Then, I realized it would be much better to 'debhelperize' the
package, because the sooner the better. So, I revamped half of
the package during January.
I'm currently in a testing phase but I can tell it is almost
finished.

(Currently, the package scheme I modified makes it very easy
to build a decicated package from any branch of the Emacs CVS)

Then, I need to decide how to make it available, i.e.
- either in experimental: it avoid the BTS to be flooded
with bug reports but it is not autobuild, which means that
the package will not be available on every architecture
unless someone rebuild the package on them
- or in unstable: the package is autobuild but I don't like
this idea of shipping something unsupported.

Then, how often shall it be uploaded to the archive?
(packages are quite huge and my DSL upload bandwidth is
16kb/s).

Questions, questions ... :-P

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