Re: ITP: emacs.app -- The GNU Emacs editor on GNUstep
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:19:20 +0200, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org> said:
> Hilko Bengen <bengen@debian.org> writes:
>> Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>>> once emacs 23.x is shipped with debian this bug should be
>>>> reassigned to emacs and be built from that source using ./configure
>>>> --with-ns --without-x
>>>
>>> Why not revive emacs-snaphot then?
>>
>> And could we please call it emacs23-snapshot?
> How about calling the package 'emacs23'?
> The fact that it is an unreleased snapshot could be reflected in the
> version number. And at the point emacs23 gets eventually released the
> package tracks the stable branch, instead of the development branch.
I would suggest that the people who would maintain Emacs for
inclusion into Debian releases would do that, at some point (whether
they elect to do so before Emacs 23 is released is up to them).
As I understand it, the current proposal was to package up the
development HEAD of the Emacs tree, and I think this is a fine idea,
even if the package is never meant to enter testing, and this is not
meant to become the upgrade of Emacs22 or Emacs23 or whatever version
of Emacs living in stable/testing.
I think it is perfectly fine to always keep an emacs-snapshot
variant along with whatever the emacsXX flavor do jour in the Elisp
packages; this means that there is no more nor less a disruption when a
new flavor of Emacs comes along (as a result of a new upstream major
release).
I must be missing the rationale why this is a bad idea.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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