Re: Emacs 23?

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 12:26:46AM -0700, John Conover wrote:

> Can Debian Wheezy 7.x Emacs 23 be installed in Debian Jessie 8.x?

Yes, it seems so.

> Anyone tried this?

Yes, just tried that on a jessie chroot using both wheezy and jessie
lines in sources.list and it worked.

However, be careful with sysvinit and apt if you don't want to install
sysvinit. sysvinit is essential in wheezy and apt mixes the essential
flag for all available distributions in sources.list:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216768

[ I call this a misfeature, but apt authors disagree ].

Thanks.