Hello, On Sun 20 Jul 2025 at 11:00am -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> Hi Sean, > > Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > >> Hello Xiyue, >> >> Thanks. I think you sent the wrong patches > > Oops, sorry. > >> but I had a look at your >> branch on salsa. This still isn't quite what I mean. I think that >> >> - you should be using the Emacs built binary (as you are now doing) >> - we should not commit the file emacs-common-substvars to git. >> Instead it should be generated during the build. >> >> So the main thing missing is that the generating of the file should be >> incorporated into the build. Probably it should go into the existing >> override_dh_auto_install. >> > > I understand that this file is mostly useful during package building. > Still, I'd like to give another try to propose to have > debian/emacs-common-substvars committed in git: this will help with > debugging in the following scenarios: > > * When we want to understand why some packages are (or not) being > replaces by Emacs, and > > * When we want to see what packages are updated between Emacs releases > (which is also why I put a package+version per line in the comments). > > Without this file, we need to get this information from `apt show' or > from https://packages.debian.org/ which would be very cumbersome and > hard to get it right. I don't mind also committing the information in a text file somewhere (with a version annotation), but the substvar generation should be wholly dynamic. -- Sean Whitton
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