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

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

Arnaud Fontaine <arnau@debian.org> writes:

> I have  almost finished preparing emacs-snapshot  and temporarily pushed
> it there, so  please have a look when  you have some time as  I may have
> messed things around ;-):
>   https://salsa.debian.org/arnau/deb-emacs

Could you repost the questions that I don't sufficiently address below
to debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org?  I think there are people there who
should also see them, particularly those like David and Sean who are
working on the broad add-on packaging effort.

>   * I was  thinking about having  deb-emacs repository for  both emacs25
>     and emacs-snapshot in  collab-maint Git (as emacs.git)  instead of a
>     user repository. What do you think?

For the moment I'd prefer to keep the "emacs25" (soon to be "emacs"[1])
flavor repository separate, which might suggest creating a collab-maint
emacs-snapshot repository for now, if that's what you'd like.

[1] In case you weren't already aware, we're about to unversion the
    emacsXY package to just be "emacs".  It's possible that won't affect
    your work too seriously, though it does involve a bunch of changes
    to the emacs25 debian/ files.  As part of that, the "emacsXY" binary
    package is becoming "emacs-gtk" because we're also moving the
    "emacs" metapackage into the upcoming unversioned emacs source
    package.

    I say "we" because although I'm handling the code, David, Sean,
    etc. have been helping figure out the details.

>   * Rob: I  have made several  changes to  emacs25 branch, feel  free to
>     merge them if they look fine to you:
>     https://salsa.debian.org/arnau/deb-emacs/commits/deb/emacs25/d/sid/master

Appreciated -- my current plan is to finish the unversioning, and then
look back at what's pending elsewhere, emacs 26, bugs, etc.  I'd guess
that it might make sense for you to rebase at that point (or at least
compare the changes), and then we can see where we stand.

I'm more than happy to attempt to minimize differences between
emacs-snapshot and emacs when we can, and I expect I should have more
time to help in a few weeks.  But regardless, we should be able to
resolve your more immediate questions on debian-emacsen soon.

Thanks
-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org
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