emacs22 versioning in Ubuntu

[Michael Olson]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Steve Langasek
<steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.

I'd prefer to see emacs22 removed, and for "aptitude install emacs" to
install "emacs23".  While it can be nice for Emacs Lisp maintainers to
have old copies of emacs around, if it's causing too much trouble for
other packages, it should just go away.

I'm going to look at re-syncing emacs23 with Debian's version this
weekend, or as time permits.

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