On 6 Feb 2004, J閞鬽e Marant uttered the following: > Hi,
Yo, > > I know this has surely been discussed not that far but AFAIK, no > > announcement has been done (yet) and so forth I need informations > > about this point. > > Me, guilty! :-P No problem :=) > > SO here is the question: what is the current emacs cvs integration > > status in Debian (experimental) ? > > > > If any testing version is available, I would be happy to test it > > here and get rid of my "daily manual upgrade" of emacs CVS ;) > > > > Please tell... > > So the whole story: during last December I created an emacs-snapshot > package from the current debian package scheme. > Then, I realized it would be much better to 'debhelperize' the > package, because the sooner the better. So, I revamped half of > the package during January. > I'm currently in a testing phase but I can tell it is almost > finished. Ahhhhhhhhh ! I love the idea to have it soon here :) > (Currently, the package scheme I modified makes it very easy > to build a decicated package from any branch of the Emacs CVS) > > Then, I need to decide how to make it available, i.e. > - either in experimental: it avoid the BTS to be flooded > with bug reports but it is not autobuild, which means that > the package will not be available on every architecture > unless someone rebuild the package on them Not that cool. > - or in unstable: the package is autobuild but I don't like > this idea of shipping something unsupported. Hmm. Yeah it is a bad dilemna. Maybe you should first give it in experimental and as the time goes along, put it in unstable. > Then, how often shall it be uploaded to the archive? > (packages are quite huge and my DSL upload bandwidth is > 16kb/s). :( > Questions, questions ... :-P Hard to be a Debian developer, huh ? :) -- .o. | zedek (at) gnu-rox.org ..o Hacker Wonderland | ooo |
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