Bug#615143: dictionaries-common: Is there a reason still not to byte-compile on emacs-snapshot?

2011-02-28 Thread Agustin Martin
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 01:36:13PM +, Reuben Thomas wrote: On 27 February 2011 08:44, Julien Danjou a...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 27 2011, Agustin Martin wrote: The idea is to try having 'emacs-snapshot' as pristine as possible, so bugs found are really bugs in it and better

Bug#615143: dictionaries-common: Is there a reason still not to byte-compile on emacs-snapshot?

2011-02-28 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 28 February 2011 11:49, Agustin Martin agmar...@debian.org wrote: At some time, I'd like to put some changes upstream making first thing available in a more general way (something users and distros could use), but did not really start with it. I agree, this is a much better way to spend

Bug#615143: dictionaries-common: Is there a reason still not to byte-compile on emacs-snapshot?

2011-02-27 Thread Julien Danjou
On Sun, Feb 27 2011, Agustin Martin wrote: The idea is to try having 'emacs-snapshot' as pristine as possible, so bugs found are really bugs in it and better service is done to FSF Emacs development. This is only documented in policy document, but not in README.emacs, where some info could be

Bug#615143: dictionaries-common: Is there a reason still not to byte-compile on emacs-snapshot?

2011-02-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 27 February 2011 08:44, Julien Danjou a...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 27 2011, Agustin Martin wrote: The idea is to try having 'emacs-snapshot' as pristine as possible, so bugs found are really bugs in it and better service is done to FSF Emacs development. This is only documented in

Bug#615143: dictionaries-common: Is there a reason still not to byte-compile on emacs-snapshot?

2011-02-27 Thread Julien Danjou
On Sun, Feb 27 2011, Reuben Thomas wrote: Just to be clear, are you saying that there would be no advantage to the user from using the Debian version? i.e. is the Debian version only useful for older versions of Emacs? AFAIK and AFAICT, yes. :) -- Julien Danjou ❱ http://julien.danjou.info

Bug#615143: dictionaries-common: Is there a reason still not to byte-compile on emacs-snapshot?

2011-02-27 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 27 February 2011 13:56, Julien Danjou a...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 27 2011, Reuben Thomas wrote: Just to be clear, are you saying that there would be no advantage to the user from using the Debian version? i.e. is the Debian version only useful for older versions of Emacs? AFAIK

Bug#615143: dictionaries-common: Is there a reason still not to byte-compile on emacs-snapshot?

2011-02-26 Thread Agustin Martin
2011/2/26 Reuben Thomas r...@sc3d.org: Package: dictionaries-common Version: 1.5.11ubuntu1 Severity: minor Hi, Reuben, Happy to read you here too. There’s no hint I can find in the docs whether the reason you don’t compile for emacs-snapshot is because it doesn’t work, or it’s not needed,

Bug#615143: dictionaries-common: Is there a reason still not to byte-compile on emacs-snapshot?

2011-02-25 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: dictionaries-common Version: 1.5.11ubuntu1 Severity: minor There’s no hint I can find in the docs whether the reason you don’t compile for emacs-snapshot is because it doesn’t work, or it’s not needed, or simply because the install script is out of date. One or two other packages (e.g.