Hi Norbert, first of all, thanks for raising the issue of the important bugfix missing in a stable release. Lately the development of AUCTeX slowed down and rolling a new release went outside my radar.
2017-07-21 3:31 GMT+02:00 Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at>: > Hi Mosè > >> In addition, Norbert Preining expressed[1] the wish to see more >> synchronization between ELPA releases and stable releases, because > > Not necessarily! I leave this to the maintainer to decide what they want > to release with tarballs etc. > > The only thing I ask for is please do not switch to ELPA releases only, > but do proper releases at times. > >> I'd like to cooperate as much as possible with downstream >> distributors, but I'm not sure about what's the best way to do it: >> >> * start tagging and releasing bug-fix versions also in the main >> repository (not only in ELPA)? > > That would be nice indeed. Also for the history. Having a tag > elpa_11.90.2 > or similar in the git repo would allow those who want to to build from > elpa releases, too. Ok, that's an option we can definitely consider and it's probably the solution with less grief. >> * other options? > > Another option would be of course to only do ELPA and stop doing > normal releases. Well, this would be by far the best solution for us. Tagging a commit is very easy, preparing a tarball requires more work because from version to version there is something to adjust, especially in the Windows tarball, which is no more distributed, luckily. > That would of course create quite some work for > distributors because they would have to switch to ELPA packaging, > but recently at least in Debian packages made from ELPA are increasing, > and AFAIR tools for elpa packaging are available. Hopefully, this would be a one-time work. > Again, all this is from a my POV! I am *not* the Debian developer > of AucTeX, but the one of TeX Live, but have worked with the > Debian developer at times. So finally it is the decision of the > auctex maintainer what to do with auctex in Debian, not mine ;-) We have the Debian maintainer reading us :-) Davide, do you think you'd be able in the future to prepare the Debian package from a git tag or an ELPA package? Anyway, I don't want to take a decision right now, this won't affect release of AUCTeX 11.91 which I'll do in the next few days, after Keita applies his patch. Bye, Mosè _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list auctex@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex