Re: Bug#429577: #429577: ITP: emacs-snapshot -- The GNU Emacs editor (development snapshot)
Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net> writes:
> 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?
As far as I know checking is a manual process with the stable emacs
uploads. But there are many fewer such uploads.
d
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