Re: Bug#429577: #429577: ITP: emacs-snapshot -- The GNU Emacs editor (development snapshot)

[Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>]

Arnaud Fontaine <arnau@debian.org> writes:

>>> I have almost  finished preparing emacs-snapshot[0] and as  I said to
>>> Rob, my plan  is to keep emacs-snapshot package as  close as possible
>>> to emacsXY package.  I know that you've been  working on unversioning
>>> emacs package (BTW Where is that repository?).
>>
>> How many of  the existing add-on packages in sid  have you tested with
>> your emacs-snapshot package?  Do you have some  plan to prevent/manage
>> breakage of add-ons  by a new upload of emacs-snapshot?  It seems like
>> every upload is potentially like a library transition, in that changes
>> in emacs tend to break add-on packages.
>
> I use  it myself on a  daily basis for a  few months (and Dima  for much
> longer so he may  know more than me about that)  with around 20 add-ons.
> Except the fact that old-style backquotes  have been removed for which I
> have a few  patches ready (and which  is something that will  have to be
> deal for emacs26 anyway AFAIK), I have not had any problem so far.

I have no automated testing in my out-of-archive emacs-snapshot builds.
It would be great to have. Rob: how do you usually do this in your
packages?