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Fri, 26 May 2023 04:34:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (tomas@tuxteam.de's message of "Fri, 26 May 2023 06:28:33 +0200") Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::330; envelope-from=rpluim@gmail.com; helo=mail-wm1-x330.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143756 Archived-At: >>>>> On Fri, 26 May 2023 06:28:33 +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de said: tomas> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 06:26:30PM -0700, David Masterson wrote: >> writes: >> >> > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 03:25:00AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: >> > >> >> Conclusion: You are allowed to use the latest Emacs even if >> >> you use Debian :) >> > >> > Absolutely. >> >> But, if you want to use latest Emacs on stable Debian, do you have to >> build Emacs yourself. If so, do you have to pull in (a lot of) packages >> needed to build Emacs, but are not in stable Debian? Then, do you have >> to go through the process of updating these packages to build a clean >> Emacs when you update to a new version of Emacs? tomas> I compile Emacs somewhat irregularly under Debian stable (currently tomas> bullseye). I haven't ever needed anything which hasn't been in the tomas> distro (of course, you'll have to install the appropriate build and tomas> -dev packages, but once you get the hang of it, that isn't hard). 'apt-get build-dep emacs' is enough on Debian. Emacs tries very hard not to depend on too-new library versions. Robert --