adding emacs-snapshot as alternative to emacs

adding emacs-snapshot as alternative to emacs

[Rainer M Krug]

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Hi

I would like to install notmuch with emacs-snapshot on ubuntu, but it does not seem to be in the
list of alternatives to emacs. I cmpiled the deb packages from source.
I have one question and one suggestion:

1) what do I have to change to have emacs-snapshot as an alternative to emacs in the dependency
list of the deb package?

2) Could emacs-snapshot be added as an alternative dependency into the source?

Thanks,

Rainer
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Re: adding emacs-snapshot as alternative to emacs

[Jeremy Nickurak]

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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Rainer M Krug <R.M.Krug@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to install notmuch with emacs-snapshot on ubuntu, but it does
> not seem to be in the
> list of alternatives to emacs. I cmpiled the deb packages from source.
> I have one question and one suggestion:
>
> 1) what do I have to change to have emacs-snapshot as an alternative to
> emacs in the dependency
> list of the deb package?
>
> 2) Could emacs-snapshot be added as an alternative dependency into the
> source?
>

Here's what I'm using to get it to build right.

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From 7c660ab0db9f57788a5f82f1e140c989850aacf2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy.nickurak@emc.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:52:44 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] debian: allow emacs-snapshot to satisfy build-dependencies.

---
 debian/control |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 812430f..9e5ff85 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Build-Depends:
  libtalloc-dev,
  libz-dev,
  python-all (>= 2.6.6-3~),
- emacs23-nox | emacs23 (>=23~) | emacs23-lucid (>=23~),
+ emacs-snapshot (>=23~) | emacs23-nox | emacs23 (>=23~) | emacs23-lucid (>=23~),
  gdb,
  dtach (>= 0.8)
 Standards-Version: 3.9.3
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Section: mail
 Breaks: notmuch (<<0.6~254~)
 Replaces: notmuch (<<0.6~254~)
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, notmuch (>= ${source:Version}),
- emacs23 (>= 23~) | emacs23-nox (>=23~) | emacs23-lucid (>=23~)
+ emacs-snapshot (>=23~) | emacs23 (>= 23~) | emacs23-nox (>=23~) | emacs23-lucid (>=23~)
 Description: thread-based email index, search and tagging (emacs interface)
  Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
  large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
-- 
1.7.9.5

Re: adding emacs-snapshot as alternative to emacs

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 21/06/12 19:11, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Rainer M Krug
> <R.M.Krug@gmail.com 
> <mailto:R.M.Krug@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> I would like to install notmuch with emacs-snapshot on ubuntu, but it does not seem to be in
> the list of alternatives to emacs. I cmpiled the deb packages from source. I have one question
> and one suggestion:
> 
> 1) what do I have to change to have emacs-snapshot as an alternative to emacs in the
> dependency list of the deb package?
> 
> 2) Could emacs-snapshot be added as an alternative dependency into the source?
> 
> 
> Here's what I'm using to get it to build right.

Thanks - installs nicely.

Would it be possible to include this in the source?

Rainer

> 
> 


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Re: adding emacs-snapshot as alternative to emacs

[David Bremner]

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Rainer M Krug <R.M.Krug@gmail.com> writes:

>> 
>> Here's what I'm using to get it to build right.
>
> Thanks - installs nicely.
>
> Would it be possible to include this in the source?
>
> Rainer

See 

    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677900

And yes, I'm the grinch.

d

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Re: adding emacs-snapshot as alternative to emacs

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 21/06/12 20:47, David Bremner wrote:
> Rainer M Krug <R.M.Krug@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> 
>>> Here's what I'm using to get it to build right.
>> 
>> Thanks - installs nicely.
>> 
>> Would it be possible to include this in the source?
>> 
>> Rainer
> 
> See
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677900
> 
> And yes, I'm the grinch.

OK - I accept the reasoning behind not adding emacs-snapshot as an alternative to the defaults.
But as I guess as quite a few are using emacs-snapshot and notmuch, it would make sense to just
add a patch to the source which one could execute to add emacs-snapshot to the list of alternative
dependencies. This would make the process more transparent and possibly easier to debug if errors
occur.

Cheers,

Rainer

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Re: adding emacs-snapshot as alternative to emacs

[David Bremner]

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Rainer M Krug <R.M.Krug@gmail.com> writes:

> OK - I accept the reasoning behind not adding emacs-snapshot as an
> alternative to the defaults.  But as I guess as quite a few are using
> emacs-snapshot and notmuch, it would make sense to just add a patch to
> the source which one could execute to add emacs-snapshot to the list
> of alternative dependencies.

It seems to me the wiki is the appropriate place for such information.

   See http://notmuchmail.org/wikiwriteaccess/ 

for more information.

David


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Re: adding emacs-snapshot as alternative to emacs

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 22/06/12 11:23, David Bremner wrote:
> Rainer M Krug <R.M.Krug@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> OK - I accept the reasoning behind not adding emacs-snapshot as an
>> alternative to the defaults.  But as I guess as quite a few are using
>> emacs-snapshot and notmuch, it would make sense to just add a patch to
>> the source which one could execute to add emacs-snapshot to the list
>> of alternative dependencies.
> 

Similar request was declined by Debian maintainer as well.

As emacs-snapshot is a moving target, w.r.t. features, maybe we should
ask emacs-snaphost packaging to add

Provides: emacs22, emacs23, emacs24

And update those as necessary? Then no changes to all the external
package would be needed.

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Regards,
Dmitrijs.