Op Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:43:21 +0100 schreef Marek Buras <[email protected]>:
> Looks like GNU Emacs (23.2) in Parkes has been stripped from GFDL > documentation and there are no additional packages available > providing removed files. So I decided to modify existing packages and > restore missing documentation. My approach isn't perfect (patch is > ca. 14MB), but at least I can access info files. Modified dsc and > dpkg related stuff can be obtained here: > http://cyfr0n.c0.pl/gns/parkes/emacs23_23.2+1-7gnewsense1.dsc > http://cyfr0n.c0.pl/gns/parkes/emacs23_23.2+1-7gnewsense1.debian.tar.gz > The original sources can be downloaded with apt-get source (I haven't > touched *orig.tar.gz). Does this approach meet gNewSense policies for > packages? If not, what could be done to restore documentation for > Emacs in gNewSense? My plan is to import GFDL packages from Debian non-free. That should be a lot less work than merging docs into the main packages. > Moreover I looked at 24.2 package for Debian wheezy (made by Rob > Browning) and it looks like not that hard task to port it to > gNewSense (there will be some implications probably, such as > rebuilding auctex and maybe other elisp stuff). If you are interested > in having modern Emacs in base I can work on that. I did a quick search and only found it in Sid. I learned from our work on Metad that backporting gets messy very quickly. What seems at first like an innocent package with few dependencies to be resolved often turns out needing a whole chain of binary and build dependencies, potentially all the way down to libc. Is there a compelling reason to have Emacs 24.2 in Parkes? _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
