On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 01:36:13PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 27 February 2011 08:44, Julien Danjou <a...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 27 2011, Agustin Martin wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > > That still makes sense IMHO. There's no point in using > > dictionaries-common's version of this libraries in emacs-snapshot. > > Just to be clear, are you saying that there would be no advantage to > the user from using the Debian version? i.e. is the Debian version > only useful for older versions of Emacs?
Mostly yes, The only minor diference expected in the long term is that with dictionaries-common files you get some info about dictionaries in the pop-up menu. However, ispell-change-dictionary will show all in both cases, so this is somewhat cosmetic. Some other improvements may be temporarily present in dictionaries-common files until they are adapted and committed to upstream trunk. This last is IMHO the best way to make them available to emacs-snapshot users/testers, better than byte-compiling older code for emacs-snapshot. Other changes are mostly changes for compatibility with XEmacs and older GNU Emacs versions, so no benefit at all for emacs-snapshot users. I do not think that the first thing justifies adding all the other with the risk of masking real bugs and polluting pristine development environment. At some time, I'd like to put some changes upstream making first thing available in a more general way (something users and distros could use), but did not really start with it. -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
