On March 2, 2007 at 7:13PM +0100, dak (at gnu.org) wrote: > > Hmm, you make an objection to uploading Debian emacs22 package > > version 22.0.x even in Debian experimental/unstable/testing... > > There is no "version 22.0.x", this is merely an internal string for > keeping track of pretests. I feel that's too extreme. emacs/README says "version 22.0.95 of GNU Emacs" and the value of emacs-version is "22.0.95". > I consider it completely pointless to upload "emacs22" before Emacs 22 > is released, since emacs-snapshot is available in unstable. (Oops, emacs-snapshot is now orphaned!) The points are testing the emacs22 flavor for Elisp Debian packages and testing the emacs22 Debian package itself. I guess some Elisp Debian packages fail with emacs22 (e.g. byte-compilation fails if emacsen-install uses whitelist without emacs22). emacs22 Debian package by Rob (emacs maintainer, not emacs-snapshot maintainer) will be reviewed by other developers. I've revised my proposal: * Upload emacs22 to Debian experimental ASAP. - Just "experimental", to prevent the confusion of the release conditions. * Upload emacs22 to Debian unstable after 22.1 is released. - Provide `emacs' metapackage by emacs22. - Prefer emacs22 instead of emacs21 by Elisp packages. - Remove emacs21 if unnecessary. * Migrate emacs22 from Debian unstable to Debian testing after some days without RC bugs. * If emacs22 is in Debian testing, emacs22 will be included in Debian stable release. Comments? -- Tatsuya Kinoshita
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