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[Michael Olson <mwolson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I wasn't really saying that we should continue this way,
> merely asking what others think.  There are very good reasons for
> not using Debian's packages (detailed on the wiki), but given the
> team's apparent lack of manpower, I wonder if going our own way is
> reasonable...

I gained some motivation to work on emacs packaging again, and am in
the process of building a proof-of-concept package of emacs23 which
undoes the Debian removals.  Some notes:

 - I'm going to try including the entire removed files as a single
quilt package that weighs in at around 22MB.  Am reminded again that
I'd love to drop quilt in favor of keeping the patches in a separate
git branch (with a simple patch application at build time), but am
holding off for now to maintain compatibility with Debian's packaging.

 - Starting from scratch on Debian's emacs23 package, rather than from
our emacs22 package or the emacs-snapshot package.  This will let us
keep pace with Debian's changes more easily, and hopefully facilitate
sharing changes with them.

 - My changes will be in a git branch that has the entire upstream in
it, which is far preferable to versioning just the debian/ directory.
I'll publish it when ready.

 - I'll start reviewing our emacs22 changes as time and work permit.

 - My proof-of-concept package (for my own use) will start by
Providing emacs-snapshot, to ease transitioning.  This will of course
be changed by the time the package is uploaded.

 - The changes were more minimal than I thought, to undo Debian's DFSG
splitting.   This is good.

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