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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] GNU Emacs and GFDL documentation.
From: |
Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] GNU Emacs and GFDL documentation. |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Dec 2012 07:51:45 +1100 |
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, 02:54:35 LHST, Marek Buras <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:56:14AM +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > My plan is to import GFDL packages from Debian non-free. That should be
> > a lot less work than merging docs into the main packages.
> >
>
> This is much better idea. We can forget what I posted earlier ;)
i have not looked at this packaging but in some cases you may be able to update
get-orig-source to stop it stripping the docs to start with. Then install the
docs as normal.
> > I did a quick search and only found it in Sid. I learned from our work
> > on Metad that backporting gets messy very quickly. What seems at first
> > like an innocent package with few dependencies to be resolved often
> > turns out needing a whole chain of binary and build dependencies,
> > potentially all the way down to libc. Is there a compelling reason to
> > have Emacs 24.2 in Parkes?
> files with vim ;D). 23.2 with Debian patches isn't broken, so there's no
> need to fix anything. If other, more skilled emacs users have nothing to
> add about 24.2, we can forget about my questions ;) There are probably
> more important tasks to complete.
Are they co installable?
Thanks,
kk