Re: emacs-snapshot and load-path

[Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>]

Quoting Sébastien Kirche <sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr.invalid>:

> Le 31 Jan 2005, Jérôme Marant s'est exprimé ainsi :
>
> > Emacs-snapshot is not an emacs21 flavour.
>
> I remember that we talked about that point months ago. Emacs-snapshot should
> not provide emacs21 to the apt package tree.

What do you mean?

> But  did  you talked  with  other Debian  maintainers  about  the fact  that
> packages  that   currently  rely  on  emacs21  could   expect  emacs21  *or*
> emacs-snapshot ?

No I didn't, simply because emacs-snapshot does not exist.

> It would  save buggy fixes to the  user that make a  self-compiled cvs emacs
> that has after to fix many elisp packages...

Sure. Some maintainers decided to make as if it really existed
for users who ask it.

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant