Hi, I use to follow the Emacs CVS development and i am also under Debian. Upon advice from Xavier Maillard some weeks ago, i installed the work from Jérôme Marant to build clean Debian Emacs packages.
I had no difficulties for the patching/building part. But the packages installation was quite more difficult. I followed the tips given at http://usefulinc.com/edd/notes/CVSEmacsOnDebian but did not manage to have all fixed. I must tell that i have also the genuine emacs21 package installed to allow installation of some other elisp packages (emacs_wiki, nxml, ...) and it seems that emacs21 with emacs-snapshot together seem to have some undesirable board effects. Xavier had just told me to look at this list and i find that i fight with the same problems other people already had. For example : - on-line documentation is partially broken : sometimes it fails to access /usr/share/emacs/21.3.50/etc/DOC-21.3.50.7 (looks very like Kai had and following what was said on the list i did the make maintainer-clean) - tramp (provided with cvs package) is totally broken : i cannot access any ftp site for example and it also keeps on failing to display help I suppose that there is a problem with the path, that some lisp files are seen several times and that for emacs-snapshot some files from emacs21 are loaded. Hopefully Gnus is mainly still functional :) (some problems with bbdb remain) Also, i wonder why emacs-snapshot cannot replace the emacs21 instead of installing aside. Maybe it would simplify those problems ? So, maybe a good soul in the list could help me to debug that stuff ? Thanks for any feedback. Sébastien Kirche
