2011/2/26 Reuben Thomas <r...@sc3d.org>: > Package: dictionaries-common > Version: 1.5.11ubuntu1 > Severity: minor
Hi, Reuben, Happy to read you here too. > There’s no hint I can find in the docs whether the reason you don’t > compile for emacs-snapshot is because it doesn’t work, or it’s not > needed, or simply because the install script is out of date. That is intentional and was done after previous 'emacs-snapshot' maintainer request (I am cc'ing Julien Danjou, current maintainer, in case he thinks differently) The idea is to try having 'emacs-snapshot' as pristine as possible, so bugs found are really bugs in it and better service is done to FSF Emacs development. This is only documented in policy document, but not in README.emacs, where some info could be added. Unless Julien thinks diffferently, I think I will close this bug report by adding an extended reasoning like the one below to README.emacs. Quoting from http://bugs.debian.org/406975 -------- > The dictionaries-common is not compiled with emacs-snapshot.. I don't > why because I tried ispell in emacs-snapshot and it works. ispell mode > flyspell mode too. Works withc Czech, British, American and German > dictionaries. ... >From Debian dictionaries policy, +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Warning |------------------------------------------------------------------------| emacs-snapshot package should not be affected by this document. It will contain the bleeding edge code from emacs cvs and we have decided to keep it as standalone as possible to minimize interferences from external code. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Note that, while many people finds emacs-snapshot very useful for daily use, it is mostly development code, and emacs-snapshot is a way to help with testing, bug hunting and fixing for that development code, which will go into next emacs release (emacs22). Masking it with foreign code might hide real bugs, and that is not we want. -------- Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
