Sébastien Kirche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le 31 Jan 2005, Jérôme Marant vraute : > >> > I remember that we talked about that point months ago. Emacs-snapshot >> > should not provide emacs21 to the apt package tree. >> >> What do you mean? > > That emacs-snapshot cannot replace emacs21 but installs aside, nor it can > provide emacs21 feature for elisp packages like ecb for which emacs21 must > be installed, even if emacs-snapshot provides the same functionality.
I think it is more logical than that: emacs-snapshot will always bring breakages since it is meant to move all the time. Users need to have something stable around. If users want to use ecb with emacs-snapshot, they need to test ecb with it and ask the ecb maintainer to explicitely add the dependency. > You told it was by design that it cannot be used as emacs21 replacement. Yes, I asked Emacs developers and they confirmed that. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
