Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.
From: Milan Zamazal <pdm@informatics.muni.cz>
Subject: Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.
Date: 17 Dec 1997 13:37:49 +0100
> What I would prefer as a user is to have multiple packages:
>
> foo-el.deb
> foo-elc-emacs.deb
> foo-elc-xemacs.deb
> foo-elc-whateveremacs.deb
> ...
>
> In debian/rules could be checked, which Emacsen are installed and only
> appropriate elc packages are created. So different co-maintainers of
> the foo with different Emacsen could produce different sets of elc
> packages just by building debs from the source package. There are some
> problems with maintaining the source package (the primary maintainer
> should incorporate changes of other maintainers, for Emacsen he has not
> installed), but I can't imagine better solution.
Instead of building many elc packages, maintainer only build elisp
package (not byte-compiled) and it provides some script to
byte-compile by using emacs which is installed in user's machine.
I suppose it is better to run in postinst.
How about this idea?
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Fumitoshi UKAI / Debian JP Project
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