Re: Re Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 13:27:36 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:33:49 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: >> >>> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: serious is a severe violation of Debi

Re: Re Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:33:49 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> serious is a severe violation of Debian policy (that is, it >>> violates a "must" or "required" directive), or, in the pa

Re: Re Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:33:49 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:41:45 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: >> >>> Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Quoting Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-02 Thread Miles Bader
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [Experimental, in its current form, is basically a ghetto of sorts: > > not only is it not auto-built, but people by and large don't use it > > unless they have some special interest in a package which they already > > _know_ is in experimental, and ther

Re: Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:33:49PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> All I'm trying to say is that if Emacs CVS snapshots are uploaded to >> unstable, it should be done with the intention of releasing it in a >> stable Debian release. > > Hmmm, I'm not sure wh

Re: Re Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-01 Thread Jérôme Marant
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I agree with you. This is why I expect experimental to be autobuilt >> in order to easy the integration of such packages. > > And I think we should not create wrong, arbitary expectations > of current practice (like, do not upload code not kno

Re: Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-01 Thread Miles Bader
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:33:49PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > All I'm trying to say is that if Emacs CVS snapshots are uploaded to > unstable, it should be done with the intention of releasing it in a > stable Debian release. Hmmm, I'm not sure where I stand on your arguments, but I think your c

Re: Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:41:45 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> JÃrÃme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Quoting Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> > BTW, Miles, I have prepared a package dedicated at Emacs CVS > sna

Re: Re Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:43:05 +0100, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:37:34 -0600, Manoj Srivastava >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to debian-emacsen: >> >This severity is *designed* to allow packages to live in >> > unstable that sh

Re: Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 01 Mar 2004 12:37:28 +0200, debian said: > On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:37:34 -0600, Manoj Srivastava > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to debian-emacsen: >> This severity is *designed* to allow packages to live in unstable >> that should not yet go into testing. > But the practice of uploading to uns

Re: Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-01 Thread Jérôme Marant
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:37:34 -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted to debian-emacsen: > >This severity is *designed* to allow packages to live in > > unstable that should not yet go into testing. > > But the practice of uploading to unstable some

Re: Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-01 Thread era+debian
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:37:34 -0600, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to debian-emacsen: > This severity is *designed* to allow packages to live in > unstable that should not yet go into testing. But the practice of uploading to unstable something which cannot reasonably be expec

Re: Re Xemacs needs help

2004-03-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:41:45 -0800, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Quoting Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> > BTW, Miles, I have prepared a package dedicated at Emacs CVS >>> > snapshots. What distribution do you think it would fit t