From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Debian and Emacs 24 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:06:34 -0600 Message-ID: <20130402170634.GA14982@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <876205e1cu.wl%f@mazzo.li> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364922417 15392 80.91.229.3 (2 Apr 2013 17:06:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 17:06:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 02 19:07:24 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1UN4g7-0001lp-P6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:07:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35061 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4fi-0008MQ-Sb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4fW-0008HG-4k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4fT-0000py-QL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:06:46 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:34833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UN4fT-0000ok-Fy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:06:43 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43886211D5 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:06:35 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E3CD42DC3E; Tue, 2 Apr 2013 11:06:34 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <876205e1cu.wl%f@mazzo.li> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89900 Archived-At: Francesco Mazzoli wrote: > I have a simple question that might lack a simple answer. > > I use Debian wheezy, and I rely heavily on the packages on the emacs > lisp that is shipped with Debian in various packages. Is there a > way I can upgrade to emacs24 while using the packaged elisp? > Getting the elisp packages from ELPA/MELPA/Marmalade or similar is > not that ideal since many (most?) of them are not present. There is current discussion of this issue in the debian-backports mailing list. Ignore the first response which was due to a misunderstanding of the question. The rest is ongoing. http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2013/04/threads.html#00010 If you must have the bleeding edge then perhaps Unstable is the better track for you. It is not without problems. It is the bleeding edge after all. And it is hard to have a bleeding edge without spilling a little blood. The whole point of stable releases is to avoid that but of course that means you don't get the daily newest between releases. Bob