From: wgreenhouse-sGOZH3hwPm2sTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org (W. Greenhouse)
To: emacs-devel-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Call for testing: Daily snapshot builds of Emacs for Ubuntu
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 02:23:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gj5ym0a.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAL3PwKw_VMf4+-R7xK2a5cC8nhwXLiu-XWWENAEPet_gKn1iHg@mail.gmail.com
Hi Robert,
Robert Park <r@robru.ca> writes:
> Known issues:
>
> * No support for elisp packages installed by dpkg. This issue is
> unfortunately more complicated than simply twiddling load-path and I'm
> still investigating it. However, I consider this issue quite minor
> because package.el support is *superb* in trunk and I highly recommend
> it's flexibility over the elisp packages installed by dpkg.
>
> If you want to give this a try in Ubuntu, you can run these commands:
>
> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot
>
> (or emacs-snapshot-nox as you prefer)
>
> Currently, builds are provided daily for Ubuntu Precise, Raring, and
> Saucy (latest LTS, latest stable, and dev series). There is a Quantal
> build available in the PPA, however I stopped making new Quantal
> builds the day Raring was released ;-)
>
> So please, take it for a spin, let me know how it's all working for
> you, and let's get all bugs fixed in trunk because distropatches are
> Eeeeeeevil!
>
> Oh, and here's the recipe, for the curious:
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+recipe/emacs-daily
I'm quite new to Debian/dpkg packaging in general, and have no
familiarity with Launchpad recipes, but it sounds like your package
might not be loading all of the startup bits expected by
/usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz. For starters,
does M-x load-library RET debian-startup RET from your Launchpad builds
actually point somewhere? If so, does the `startup' library load it?
That `debian-startup' file is the entry-point for Emacs dpkg packages
setting up their autoloads and the like, and yes, unfortunately, this is
a big fat distropatch. :-)
Ubuntu's emacs-snapshot packaging may have changed this whole
infrastructure in some way that I'm not taking account of, but I would
expect that many elisp packages in Ubuntu are largely unchanged from
Debian and simply expect this to work.
I agree that it's a pretty minor complaint if the rest of the package is
working great, but dpkg packages for Emacs features are still useful in
spite of package.el, particularly if they have non-elisp dependencies,
e.g. the `auctex' package, or the `maildir-utils' package (containing
the `mu' maildir indexer which is the binary dependency for djcb's
`mu4e' Emacs mailclient).
HTH,
WGG
--
BOFH excuse #411:
Traffic jam on the Information Superhighway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-12 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-12 0:06 Call for testing: Daily snapshot builds of Emacs for Ubuntu Robert Park
2013-05-12 2:23 ` W. Greenhouse [this message]
2013-05-13 22:18 ` Robert Park
2013-05-13 9:08 ` Julien Danjou
2013-05-13 21:32 ` Robert Park
2013-05-14 2:48 ` Glenn Morris
2013-05-14 7:07 ` Robert Park
2013-05-14 9:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-14 9:38 ` Julien Danjou
2013-05-14 21:05 ` Barry Warsaw
2013-05-15 3:36 ` Robert Park
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