Re: debian's gnus package older than its emacs builtin gnus?
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
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> 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.
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> You should perhaps give Debian more credit.
Oh, I didn't mean to take any credit away from debian at all, sorry if
i gave that impression. I am full of praise for debian, the best
distro ever, and as a user, only seek to help improve it further and
make it more user-friendly.
Yes, debian and the debian emacs developers do a marvellous task of
packaging emacs, gnus and related packages.
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> DG> Perhaps the "apt-cache show gnus" should mention in its first
> DG> line: "newsreader for emacs20 or older" or some such.
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> But that would be untrue, since I am using the same package,
> gnus, albeit a different version, for emacs21.
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> It would, in Sid.
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> 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.
Ah, that clears up things for me quite a bit. Perhaps we can state a
similar line in the description of gnus package:
"Note: IF your (X)emacs version contains a builtin gnus, this package
will not affect that gnus unless this package provides a newer version
of gnus than the built-in one."
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