Re: First try of emacs23 and emacs23-non-dfsg backports for lenny
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:07:50PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Cyril Bouthors wrote:
> >> > I've got a first version of packages for Lenny built from emacs23 and
> >> > emac23-non-dfsg sources. [...]
> >>
> >> Why not using emacs-snapshot? [...] http://emacs.orebokech.com/
> >
> > Because that's not in Debian Testing.
>
> http://emacs.orebokech.com/ provides an apt repository from which to
> install emacs-snapshot. That repository provides builds for both sid
> and lenny.
Ah, right, I forgot. I played around with it on Lenny months ago,
too. :-)
> The point was to simply use its repository instead of putting work
> into backporting a package that's already being backported (just not
> via the backports framework).
Ok, I understood it the other way round. (Obviously. ;-)
Thanks for clarification!
Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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