emacs22 versioning in Ubuntu

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:46:22AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 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:
> >
> >- 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),
> >
> >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'd agree it's definitely stable.  I ran into some minor regressions
when moving from 22 to 23 but nothing severe enough to make me go back;
mostly were all things I could work around with appropriate .emacs
settings.