Re: Wondering about possibility of removing emacs24 from stretch

2016-12-29 Thread Rob Browning
OK, we're now down to these outstanding issues: - automake: can't yet sbuild; known sbuild issues (could try porterbox next) - doxymacs: appears fine; need to test resulting deb behavior. This package is orphaned, so we should be relatively free to fix it. - gnuplot: builds fine; ne

Re: Wondering about possibility of removing emacs24 from stretch

2016-12-29 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning writes: > And at the moment, we have: > > First category: > - two packages that are likely fine once the deps are broadened > - five still to evaluate > Update regarding the second category: - ten packages that appear fine (plus or minus a couple of trivial patches)

Re: Planning to change emacs-defaults (emacs) to emacs25 soon

2016-12-29 Thread Rob Browning
Bill Allombert writes: > The transition freeze was the 5 of November, so I suggest you ask the > opinion of the release team before proceeding. Done, and thanks. (Message presenting the situation sent to debian-release and debian-emacsen.) -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org

Wondering about possibility of removing emacs24 from stretch

2016-12-29 Thread Rob Browning
We've been hoping (#debian-emacs and I) for a while that we might be able to remove emacs24 from stretch, and while there was some initial trouble with emacs25's stability, we finally got that sorted, and we've been trying to nudge maintainers to adjust their package deps to not depend solely on e

Re: Planning to change emacs-defaults (emacs) to emacs25 soon

2016-12-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 02:19:26PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > Bill Allombert writes: > > > Do you realize the freeze is in one week, and that lot of people are > > in holiday during this week ? > > My understanding is that the upcoming freeze is for the addition of new > packages, so I *think*