Re: Emacs21 on stable - any joy?

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Colin Walters wrote:

> Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> writes:
> 
> > THanks forthis.  I'll try the CVS but just one question - these are
> > debian source packages - when I creat a build directory with them,
> > can I simply use CVS inside it to update, rather than download the
> > whole thing again?
> 
> You should just be able to checkout the CVS tree, then apply the
> debian diff to it, chmod a+x debian/rules, and dpkg-buildpackage -us
> -uc.  If all goes well, that is :)

i.e. you have to download it again, AFAICT.

Peter