emacs22 versioning in Ubuntu

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at ubuntu.com
Thu May 20 18:43:22 BST 2010


On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 03:22:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> 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.

The one problem I'm aware of if removing emacs22 from maverick is that
emacs23 has never successfully built on ia64 in Ubuntu.  OTOH, current
emacs22 also FTBFS on ia64.

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