Gentlefolk: >> it maybe that some of the manuals were reclassified as >> non-dfsg free and were moved out of the main >> repositories. Many GFDL documents were reclassified for >> etch. > > That appears to be the case, as confirmed in > /usr/share/doc/emacs21-common/copyright:
It appears to be otherwise for emacs-snapshot-common.
It's in the main repository, includes the files
emacs-[1-8].gz, and its .../copyright file says it's under
the GFDL.
Searching the Manual reveals the only occurrences of the
word `invariant' are in the GFDL's text itself. Could the
absence of invariant sections render it DFSG-free, with the
changes made since emacs21?
Tyler, you might want to try emacs-snapshot. I've been
following it (and unstable) for months now, and have had no
problems other than emacs's icon disappearing every so
often. At a minimum, installing emacs-snapshot-common will
get you the manual The Debian Way. Its direct dependencies
are
o dpkg (>=1.9.0) and
o emacsen-common (>=1.4.10)
If your installation is OK with these (and whatever they
drag in) ``apt-get install emacs-snapshot-common'' should do
it.
HTH.
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Max Hyre
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