From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37527: [PATCH] Install C source code for for debugging help Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 02:09:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20190926200752.12563-1-eggert@cs.ucla.edu> <831rw2l3zu.fsf@gnu.org> <89682bf5-de07-b114-90d1-cff9e4d62e5f@cs.ucla.edu> <83tv8yjjaz.fsf@gnu.org> <877e5uglp8.fsf@gmx.de> <83lfuaj7ix.fsf@gnu.org> <878sq9a4tm.fsf@gmx.de> <04b15e73-8a92-76a0-0de5-8531162ac5aa@cs.ucla.edu> <874l0wam9w.fsf@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="79860"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 Cc: 37527@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 29 09:10:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iETLQ-000KgA-V9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 09:10:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37170 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iETLP-0004jm-7A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53484) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iETLH-0004hm-8n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:10:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iETLG-000208-BS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:43267) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iETLG-000204-8n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iETLG-0001k7-35 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:10:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 07:10:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37527 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 37527-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37527.15697409686652 (code B ref 37527); Sun, 29 Sep 2019 07:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37527) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Sep 2019 07:09:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52088 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iETKh-0001jD-JU for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:40784) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iETKe-0001iz-VR for 37527@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 03:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684CE1600C2; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:09:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id y6MNUZAJNEjO; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55DC160227; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:09:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id OUAAW5A7unXZ; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.147.182] (unknown [12.201.183.3]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6FC8A1600C2; Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:09:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <874l0wam9w.fsf@gmx.de> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:167607 Archived-At: On 9/28/19 2:54 AM, Michael Albinus wrote: > The major distributions have decided to separate source packages. Do you > believe they will change their approach, after your patch has been > applied? I hope they don't change their approaches, as that would likely be yet another maintenance hassle for us. However, not every distribution has a source-code package so we'll need a backstop approach anyway, and the backstop can be what I suggested. We can also tune Emacs for the major distributions that have such packages, if someone finds the time to do that and if we're willing to maintain the resulting extra complexity; but that won't avoid the need for the backstop.