Re: emacs.app_9.0pre2-1_i386.changes REJECTED
[ Trimming the Cc list a bit. ]
Several people have asked for feature branches of CVS to be included in
Debian: multi-tty, Xft, tiling, etc. There are several reasons why this
isn't possible:
1. Including them in Debian as separate packages is a massive
duplication of resources and time since they all derive from CVS
HEAD. Maintaining emacs-snapshot and making it a usable
alternative is a lot of work, duplicating it would be a waste.
2. Including these branches in the emacs-snapshot packages as they
exist right now is not feasible because the branches all conflict
massively with each other, and are at variable states of stability.
The purpose of emacs-snapshot at the moment is to prepare the
release of Emacs 22.
3. Using the emacs-snapshot source package to build different sets of
packages for each of these branches (with patches) would be
feasible, but painful: HEAD moves fast, and the maintainers of
these branches probably don't follow it very closely.
I see Emacs.app as one of these branches. I think you should focus on
getting the code ready for inclusion in Emacs proper after the 22.1
release, and it will be included in Debian eventually via emacs-snapshot.
In the meantime, providing third-party external packages ala multi-tty
is probably your best alternative.
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