Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm not a great fan of orphaning complicated packages. Are there users > > that need emacs20 because emacs21 is broken for some things? > > From what I've seen on the emacs groups, it's mostly people who are > very conservative about changing what works, and those who dislike the > `new fangled' look of emacs 21.
I agree. Now that you mention, I recall of lot of such posts. > I expect the latter group could largely be satisfied by a guide to > turning off the various new features of emacs 21 that they dislike > (perhaps the debian site file could even have an `emacs20ify' function); That's a good idea. And a lot less work than maintaining emacs20! > I think the one sticky point is that unless you use `emacs -nw', turning > off the [left] fringe is not entirely equivalent to the old emacs > overflow-indicator column. Yeah. Still, the fact that some users want to staick with emacs20 forever doesn't mean it has to be a Debian package. :-) Although having it work with all the packaged elisp stuff is a good thing. I don't know what the answer is, but I'm not sure Debian would be well served by an orphaned emacs20 package maintained by QA. I hope this helps a little Rob... Peter
