From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Request for policy ruling - dropping Arch support fom VC? Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 10:16:40 +0100 Message-ID: <21634.51576.596441.953931@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20141205231217.B9D6F383525@snark.thyrsus.com> <20141206060548.GB14890@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417857450 24504 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2014 09:17:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 09:17:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 06 10:17:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XxBUQ-0003hu-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 10:17:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxBUP-0001OG-Nw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:17:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56428) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxBU6-0001O8-UC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxBTz-0001Tk-E9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:17:02 -0500 Original-Received: from a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:37427) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxBTz-0001RN-5A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Dec 2014 04:16:55 -0500 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1www.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.9/8.14.7) with ESMTP id sB69Ggfu000481; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 10:16:42 +0100 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.2) with ESMTP id sB69GgF0019345; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 10:16:42 +0100 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id sB69GeVh019341; Sat, 6 Dec 2014 10:16:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20141206060548.GB14890@thyrsus.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179119 Archived-At: >>>>> On Sat, 6 Dec 2014, Eric S Raymond wrote: > Ubuntu doesn't package Arch, which is a pretty good clue that nobody > has cared about it for quite a while. The last source snapshot was > made nine years ago. I downloaded it and looked; the build > insteructions are rudimentary and not reassuring. Huh? For tla-1.3.5, the build process simply consists of (out-of-tree) "configure" and "make". Gentoo removed the package from the main repository in 2008, but we still have an ebuild for it in the sunrise overlay. Ulrich