On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:07 AM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote:
> I'm not convinced we should change anything in pylint to support > emacs21, which has been removed from debian since 2009 > > I like keeping Emacs 21 in order to test features instead of scanning through NEWS files. And you are wrong in assumption that the only way to install package is from official Debian repository. The right way to write install file is to check supported feature and not to reject unsupported feature. So in some way you are right that adding case for Emacs 21 is wrong thing. But most of /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/* written in a broken way for my second point. They SHOULD check for emacs24/emacs25 $FLAVOR instead of rejecting xemacs, emacs22 etc.
