On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, Rob Browning wrote: > Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> writes: > > > This is essentially the same bug as #842728, but in emacs24. > > [ If you need a full build log, just say so and I will include it ] > > > > I guess, but I don't really know, that the same fix that worked > > for emacs25 should work here as well. > > OK, thanks -- I'm going to hold off on this for a couple of days. We're > waiting to hear back from the release team about the possibility of > switching emacs-defaults to emacs25 and then removing emacs24 from > stretch. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2016/12/msg00016.html
Hello Rob. That sounds much like a "transition" to me, and considering that they are not allowed anymore, I would not be surprised if they say no. Please consider fixing the package regardless of what they will finally say (I know they are busy with many other things). Thanks.