Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: > Hello, > > On Sun, Jun 10 2018, David Bremner wrote: > >> This is pretty much what notmuch does as well (with 1.2.3-2 >> effectively a point release with selective distribution). The argument >> gets a bit circular here. Branches make sense if you think separete >> upstream releases on MELPA make sense. > > It might not be crazy to have MELPA (like Fedora) be a downstream of the > native package in the Debian archive.
Hmm. Well, it wouldn't be my first choice, but I think it's not really the most important issue to figure out. For example, are we ready to drop xemacs support from dpkg-dev-el and debian-el? If not, then that's a problem. OTOH, I also don't want to block the transition to unversioned emacs. Or be sucked into the briarpatch of maintaining emacs-goodies-el. d
