From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sebastian P. Luque" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:19:02 -0500 Organization: Memorial University Message-ID: <87r6q4fmd5.fsf@patagonia.sebmags.homelinux.org> References: <87bqhd4swc.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> <854pn4nvoh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87vefk16xw.fsf@pdrechsler.de> <87abwtnnrn.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87647hnfqk.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> <87647gmsi2.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177780794 25818 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2007 17:19:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:19:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 28 19:19:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HhqaN-0005dW-UF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:19:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HhqgM-0002VG-D9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hhqg5-0002ST-3j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:25:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hhqg3-0002Pb-1G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:25:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hhqg2-0002PL-Rb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:25:42 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hhqa3-0006ry-EO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:19:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HhqZr-0000F2-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:19:19 +0200 Original-Received: from s01060015e975d7fb.wp.shawcable.net ([24.77.75.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:19:19 +0200 Original-Received: from spluque by s01060015e975d7fb.wp.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:19:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s01060015e975d7fb.wp.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mt5bCauYznwmXqLk6BFc7r8G0Sw= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43318 Archived-At: On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:24:37 +0200, Hadron wrote: > Tim X writes: >> "Sebastian P. Luque" writes: >>> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:09:16 +1000, >>> Tim X wrote: >> [...] >>>> Note that its quite easy with Debian to run the testing version and >>>> have just a couple of packages from unstable. This is what I do. Only >>>> emacs-snapshot (aka emacs 22) is running from unstable, everything >>>> else is from testing. the apt-get (and aptitude, dselect, etc) are >>>> able to handle this automatically. So, when doing an update, it >>>> updates everything from testing except emacs-snapshot, which it >>>> updates from unstable. >>> emacs-snapshot has been orphaned for more than a month now, so is no >>> longer in sync with CVS. Fortunately, the ex-maintainer is still >>> kindly offering the packages here: >>> http://emacs.orebokech.com/ >>> Thanks to Romain for continuing to help the Debian user community. >> thanks Seb. I was wondering why there hasn't been an update for over a >> month! >> Tim > Yes, very useful! Thanks. If you're wondering why emacs-snapshot and others (or their docs) are no longer in Debian main, this should help: http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 -- Seb