Bug#869509: [Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#869509: dh-elpa: please support tuning which emacs flavors to skip

2017-07-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Sean Whitton writes: > dh_elpa --min-emacs-version 25 Ah, OK. Go for it! -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?a...@monk.mit.edu

Bug#869509: [Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#869509: dh-elpa: please support tuning which emacs flavors to skip

2017-07-25 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello again, On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:53:34PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > OK, thanks. Should dh-elpa then stop byte-compiling anything against > Emacs 24, if there are already addons that don't support it and Emacs 24 > is on the way out anyway? David Bremner points out that something like t

Bug#869509: [Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#869509: dh-elpa: please support tuning which emacs flavors to skip

2017-07-24 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Sean Whitton writes: > Based on previous conversations with Rob, the situation where we have > both emacs24 and emacs25 in Debian is meant to be temporary, and for > transitional purposes -- Rob and I tried to get emacs24 removed in time > for the stretch freeze, and it only remains because we di

Bug#869509: [Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#869509: dh-elpa: please support tuning which emacs flavors to skip

2017-07-24 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Aaron, On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 03:10:46PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > dh-elpa supplies emacsen-common install and remove scripts that > hardcode the list of emacs flavors to skip as obsolete (GNU Emacs 23 > and below) or simply unsupported (XEmacs). This one-size-fits-all > approach has t

Bug#869509: dh-elpa: please support tuning which emacs flavors to skip

2017-07-23 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Package: dh-elpa Version: 1.8 Severity: normal dh-elpa supplies emacsen-common install and remove scripts that hardcode the list of emacs flavors to skip as obsolete (GNU Emacs 23 and below) or simply unsupported (XEmacs). This one-size-fits-all approach has two drawbacks: - It does not fully ac