Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-06-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:37:59 +0200, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Now you have to ask yourself: for how many Emacs packages are there > Debian versions maintained by upstream, the ideal constellation? If by that you mean that there is ./debian directory upstream, then by no

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-06-02 Thread Ralf Angeli
* Holger Schauer (2005-06-01) writes: > On 4290 September 1993, Ralf Angeli wrote: > >> I don't consider it uncommon that people have software installed >> manually which is also available via the package system. Reasons >> could be special build options or the need for other versions of the >> s

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-06-02 Thread David Kastrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 4282 September 1993, J. wrote: >> I think this requires some changes in the policy: >> Common .el files could be installed in /usr{,/local}/share/emacsen/site-lisp >> which is not a standard location in Emacsen's path. >> It would replace /usr/{,/local}/share/emacs/s

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-06-02 Thread David Kastrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 4290 September 1993, Ralf Angeli wrote: >> * Holger Schauer (2005-05-31) writes: > >>> I wear glasses, but I'm not blind. Referring on a Debian list to a manual >>> installation of a package that Debian distributes as a Debian package is >>> a red herring. > >> I don

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-06-01 Thread Holger . Schauer
On 4282 September 1993, J. wrote: > I think this requires some changes in the policy: > Common .el files could be installed in /usr{,/local}/share/emacsen/site-lisp > which is not a standard location in Emacsen's path. > It would replace /usr/{,/local}/share/emacs/site-lisp in both Emacsen > paths

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-06-01 Thread Holger . Schauer
On 4290 September 1993, Ralf Angeli wrote: > * Holger Schauer (2005-05-31) writes: >> I wear glasses, but I'm not blind. Referring on a Debian list to a manual >> installation of a package that Debian distributes as a Debian package is >> a red herring. > I don't consider it uncommon that people

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-06-01 Thread Jérôme Marant
Selon OHURA Makoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually, I have a local Subversion repository in my box. OK. > I want to use alioth repository to co-maintain xemacs21. We > have already alioth project of Debian XEmacs Package: > > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-xemacs/ > > but, I'm not a

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-05-31 Thread Ralf Angeli
* Holger Schauer (2005-05-31) writes: > I wear glasses, but I'm not blind. Referring on a Debian list to a manual > installation of a package that Debian distributes as a Debian package is > a red herring. I don't consider it uncommon that people have software installed manually which is also ava

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-05-31 Thread Holger Schauer
Ralf Angeli wrote: > * Holger Schauer (2005-05-30) writes: > If /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp were a directory to be used by > XEmacs then why isn't it included in XEmacs' paths.h or found by > (paths-find-site-lisp-directory '("/usr/local")) > in case XEmacs is configured with a bare ./configur

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-05-31 Thread Ralf Angeli
* Holger Schauer (2005-05-30) writes: > On 4281 September 1993, Ralf Angeli wrote: >> following up on a discussion from the xemacs-beta mailing list I'd >> like to point out some issues with the XEmacs package Debian is >> providing and suggest possible remedies. > > First of all, I should mentio

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-05-30 Thread Holger . Schauer
Moin Ralf, dear list, On 4281 September 1993, Ralf Angeli wrote: > following up on a discussion from the xemacs-beta mailing list I'd > like to point out some issues with the XEmacs package Debian is > providing and suggest possible remedies. First of all, I should mention that I'm unaware of an

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-05-24 Thread OHURA Makoto
Hi. From: Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 13:25:57 +0200 > I think you could start by making the packaging available through > a version control system. > For Emacs, we use bazaar > (people.debian.org/~

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-05-24 Thread Ralf Angeli
* OHURA Makoto (2005-05-24) writes: >> Anyway, XEmacs still picks up at least one wrong file. So taking >> aside /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp because it is under the package >> system's control, I think at least /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp >> should not be added to XEmacs' load-path in order t

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-05-24 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting OHURA Makoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi. > > I think I should call for co-maintainer of xemacs21 and > xemacs21-packages. I'm using xemacs21 everyday and I'm > interested in maintaining these two packages even now, but there > are some problems. For example, I don't have enough time t

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-05-23 Thread OHURA Makoto
Hi. I think I should call for co-maintainer of xemacs21 and xemacs21-packages. I'm using xemacs21 everyday and I'm interested in maintaining these two packages even now, but there are some problems. For example, I don't have enough time to research all the bugs related to xemacs21. And espe

Re: Some XEmacs issues and proposals

2005-05-23 Thread Jérôme Marant
Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everybody, Hi, > following up on a discussion from the xemacs-beta mailing list I'd > like to point out some issues with the XEmacs package Debian is > providing and suggest possible remedies. The problems are affecting > AUCTeX to some extent, so I