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Re: emacs 23 & Debian
From: |
Thorsten Bonow |
Subject: |
Re: emacs 23 & Debian |
Date: |
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:04:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Badgley <mortecanine@peoplepc.com> writes:
Ben> 1. Where and how may a person upgrade to version 23 for Debian?
Ben> I'm a simple 'go grab a .deb and install it' sort at this point,
Ben> although am getting better with using the console. So, please avoid
Ben> saying cvs or git, subversion. Have a friend coming over for the
Ben> weekend who may better explain that voodoo to me
Packages for Debian can be found at
http://emacs.orebokech.com/
Works for me for I don't know how long...
Ben> 2. Why did the Debian Emacs release come over as a bit hindered?
Ben> Noticed this on the Emacs Wiki threads about Emacs on Debian. It
Ben> couldn't sort out what was where, or its version. There was some code
Ben> to attempt correcting it posted as well.
Ben> 3. And will future Debian releases of Emacs be so?
Ben> Hope not on this end.
There is a Debian Emacs policy which solves the problem for Debian to provide
different flavors of emacsen without duplicating a lot of lisp files but makes
a lot of people---including Emacs developers---angry who feel that the solution
is inadequate. Feel free to read up on this topic ;-)
By the way, emacs 23 isn't released. So you can't really blame Debian for
shipping a released version.
Toto
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- Re: emacs 23 & Debian, (continued)
Re: emacs 23 & Debian, Richard Riley, 2009/06/25
Re: emacs 23 & Debian,
Thorsten Bonow <=
Re: emacs 23 & Debian, Benjamin Badgley, 2009/06/25
Re: emacs 23 & Debian, Thorsten Bonow, 2009/06/25
Re: emacs 23 & Debian, Tim X, 2009/06/26