emacs22 versioning in Ubuntu

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 20, 2010, at 03:22 PM, Colin Watson wrote:

>I've had to maintain this delta in Ubuntu's dpkg for some time now:
>
>diff -Nru dpkg-1.15.7.2/debian/control dpkg-1.15.7.2ubuntu1/debian/control
>--- dpkg-1.15.7.2/debian/control        2010-05-19 06:55:01.000000000 +0100
>+++ dpkg-1.15.7.2ubuntu1/debian/control 2010-05-20 15:04:37.000000000 +0100
>@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
> # see http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo
> Breaks: jed (<< 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-13), xjed (<< 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-13),
>  konqueror (<= 4:4.2.96-1), xemacs21-support (<< 21.4.22-2),
>- emacs22 (<= 22.3+1-1), emacs22-gtk (<= 22.3+1-1), emacs22-nox (<= 22.3+1-1),
>+ emacs22 (<= 22.2-0ubuntu2), emacs22-gtk (<= 22.2-0ubuntu2), emacs22-nox (<= 22.2-0ubuntu2),
>  emacs21 (<< 21.4a+1-5.7), emacs21-nox (<< 21.4a+1-5.7),
>  tkinfo (<< 2.8-3.1), pinfo (<< 0.6.9-3.1), jed-extra (<= 2.5.3-2)
> Suggests: apt
>
>This is now one of the few Ubuntu-specific changes left in dpkg, and
>it's inconvenient to keep on merging it; I'm trying hard to get to the
>point where we can sync it unmodified instead, and am down to just this
>plus one other tiny unforwarded patch.  Is there any hope that emacs22
>will ever be merged up to match the current Debian packaging?
>
>There is, presumably, the option of removing emacs22 and shipping only
>emacs23.  I note that emacs22 has been removed from Debian squeeze
>(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582156).  Since I
>don't use Emacs, I'm not qualified to say whether we should remove it
>from Maverick too.

I've been using the Emacs 23 package since Karmic (maybe even before).  It's
now the default in Lucid and it's been incredibly stable for me.

I haven't looked at the detailed information on the differences between v22
and v23, but the big one for me is Xft support.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

I would have no problem removing Emacs 22 for Maverick also.  Note that Emacs
23.2 was released upstream on 2010-05-08 (Lucid's is 23.1):

http://directory.fsf.org/project/emacs/

I hope we'll pick that up in Maverick eventually.  It's in Debian unstable
right now.

-Barry
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