On 15 August 2012 11:09, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:51:49 -0400 > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org> wrote: > >> On 15 August 2012 10:47, Adam D. Barratt <a...@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote: >> > On 15.08.2012 15:21, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >> >> >> >> So is this settled? >> > >> > Emacs 24 appears not to have been released upstream until less than three >> > weeks before the freeze. >> >> So it's a done deal, then? Ancient Emacs in Debian for two more years >> unless you use backports? > > I fail to see how a release which was considered current by upstream > only three weeks before the deadline for the freeze can be considered > ancient by anyone. It's not a lot of time to get a major upstream > version packaged and tested.
Emacs 24 has been in pre-release mode for close to a year, widely tested, widely used. Lots of external elisp code was assuming that it was already for 24, even if upstream hadn't made a release. In a sense, Emacs goes through its own freeze cycle, and was about one year long. So by the time Debian stable gets the next version of Emacs, the codebase will be about three years old. Anyways, this doesn't answer my question, which I've asked thrice. Here it goes again: is this a done deal, and we're getting an ancient (yes, ancient) Emacs version for wheezy? - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
