emacs22 versioning in Ubuntu

Adam Conrad adconrad at 0c3.net
Thu May 20 21:23:10 BST 2010


On 5/20/2010 11:43 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 
> 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.

Which, I think, speaks volumes about how much our ia64 users care about
emacs.  Honestly, I'd remove emacs22 (assuming the emacs users reach a
consensus that this is alright) now, and live without emacs/ia64 until
the Debian FTBFS bug for emacs23/ia64 shakes out that one problem.

... Adam



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