OK, after digesting the recent conversations about what needs to be done for the various Debian emacsen (thanks everyone). I've come to the following conclusions:
There's a substantial amount of work to do to get this problem solved properly: to allow simultaneous install of all flavors, to support the auto-generation of .elc files when appropriate, and to allow elisp files to be easily shared when appropriate. Coming up with the right answer is going to require a conversation with the various emacs and emacs package developers, a policy proposal, and a (hopefully reasonably) brief revision process to be followed by an implementation. In the end, this is what I want to do, but it's going to take longer than I'm willing to wait with respect to getting an initial emacs20 package out. So, unless there's a good objection, I'm going to provide a short-term solution before working on the larger problem. I'm going to release an emacs20 package that's similar to the existing emacs 19 package. It won't coexist with xemacs any better than the current package, and it probably won't move the relevant files to /usr/share. Since it's byte-file compatible with the current emacs 19 package it won't have to conflict (I hope), so the install should be pretty painless. This will also keep me from biting off more than I can chew. I can get comfortable with the emacs build process and source, and make sure I get all the bugs worked out before tackling the bigger issues. Comments? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .