On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Romain Francoise <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I wasn't really saying that we should continue this way, > merely asking what others think. There are very good reasons for > not using Debian's packages (detailed on the wiki), but given the > team's apparent lack of manpower, I wonder if going our own way is > reasonable...
I gained some motivation to work on emacs packaging again, and am in the process of building a proof-of-concept package of emacs23 which undoes the Debian removals. Some notes: - I'm going to try including the entire removed files as a single quilt package that weighs in at around 22MB. Am reminded again that I'd love to drop quilt in favor of keeping the patches in a separate git branch (with a simple patch application at build time), but am holding off for now to maintain compatibility with Debian's packaging. - Starting from scratch on Debian's emacs23 package, rather than from our emacs22 package or the emacs-snapshot package. This will let us keep pace with Debian's changes more easily, and hopefully facilitate sharing changes with them. - My changes will be in a git branch that has the entire upstream in it, which is far preferable to versioning just the debian/ directory. I'll publish it when ready. - I'll start reviewing our emacs22 changes as time and work permit. - My proof-of-concept package (for my own use) will start by Providing emacs-snapshot, to ease transitioning. This will of course be changed by the time the package is uploaded. - The changes were more minimal than I thought, to undo Debian's DFSG splitting. This is good. -- Michael Olson || http://mwolson.org/ Projects: Emacs, Muse, ERC, EMMS _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
