Re: debian's gnus package older than its emacs builtin gnus?
>>"DG" == D Goel <deego@gnufans.org> writes:
DG> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>> [Manoj's information on gnus package]
DG> hm, here's another confused emacs user. I had been "careful" to not
DG> "apt-get install gnus", lest it spoil my current emacs21.
You should perhaps give Debian more credit.
DG> Perhaps the "apt-cache show gnus" should mention in its first line:
DG> "newsreader for emacs20 or older" or some such.
But that would be untrue, since I am using the same package,
gnus, albeit a different version, for emacs21.
DG> Currently, when I apt-cache show gnus, the only mention of versions
DG> occurs here:
DG> Depends: ucf, emacs20 | emacs21 | xemacs20 | xemacs21, fileutils (>= 4.0)
DG> which, since it mentions emacs21, would lead a confusubie like me to
DG> think that this standalone package would replace emacs21's gnus.
It would, in Sid. Since Emacsen contain Gnusii, there are
periods when the versions of gnus built in leap frog the stand alone
version. Users should not have to care when that happens, since the
stand alone package should make it so that the version of Gnus is
never a downgrade for the user of the standalone package.
Which happens to be the case here.
manoj
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