Re: Question on updating to 29.1

["జిందం వాఐి" <jindam.vani@disroot.org>]

On 2023-10-05 22:47, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> 
>> In my case, i did upgrade from bookworm to sid (Debian
>> distro). Now i have GNU Emacs 29.1 version.
> 
> Sid is the development version of Debian while Bookworm AKA
> Debian 12 is the most recent, stable version of Debian.
> 
> I don't know what the reason was for you to use Sid, but if it
> is to get a more recent Emacs version it is better to keep the
> distribution stable

if i want latest versions in stable_
* stable is installed on your device
* add backports sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main
* check for package versions available
in tracker [ 1 ]
* emacs 29.1 is available in
bookworm-backports [ stable-bpo aka
debian 12 backports], trixie [ testing aka debian 13 ],
sid [ 2 ]
* if package is not available in stable or
stable-bpo but only in testing or sid
   * i would first install on my spare device
or vm, use it for weeks and ok with it,
i would do dist-upgrade my stable
* as a last resort, or feel confident, or
simply bravely, install sid

> , and install Emacs manually.
>  Then you get
> the most recent version of Emacs - i.e. even more recent than
> what you get from the Sid repos - while still having the
> stable Linux distro beneath it.
> 
> Especially since it is so easy ot build Emacs manually.
> 
>> Like me, you do contact to Ubuntu team with Emacs update.
> 
> What do you mean?
> 
>> And i like this emacs 29.1 very much!

> Thanks for mentioning this, I just now upgraded Debian 11
> (bullseye) to Debian 12 (bookworm) now!
> 
> After doing that, I had to do
> 
>   $ sudo apt-get install build-essential debian-goodies 
> libgccjit-10-dev
> 
> before upgrading Emacs.
> 
> The distro should do that automatically but, for whatever
> reason, in the case of libgccjit-10-dev, it didn't.

* libgccjit-10-dev is not available in stable [ 3 ]
* ask in debian irc, #debian on oftc.net about
version 10
* libgccjit-11-dev is available on stable, testing,
sid [ 4 ]

[ 1 ] https://tracker.debian.org/
[ 2 ] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs
[ 3 ] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gcc-10
[ 4 ] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gcc-11

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