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[Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Len Trigg <lenbok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10 April 2015 at 09:05, Robert Park <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> There's some rumours going around that launchpad will adopt git
>> support, and perhaps at that time it will be possible to get this
>> stuff all working again.
>
> Is it not possible to ignore emacs git altogether and have a stable ppa that
> builds from the emacs source release tarballs? I assume that it isn't hard
> to do manually for each stable release, given how infrequent they are?

It is possible to do manually, but it's not possible to automate it
given the existing suite of features provided by launchpad. The whole
point of this project was to have zero-effort automated builds that I
could just enjoy using without having to worry about, and that's
seriously busted right now.


>> In the mean time, emacs is actually surprisingly easy to compile
>> yourself if you really need it; just './configure && make && sudo make
>> install' and you're on your way. It's an option if you're really
>> hurting for a newer version of emacs on 14.04.
>
> And install all the packages needed for compiling, configure, etc. I have
> multiple 14.04 machines at home and a couple at work, and try to avoid
> having to go through all that on all of them, and there are probably a large
> fraction of people in the same boat (which is why I thought having the
> semi-official stable releases ppa would help).


Are you interested in taking over maintainership of the PPA? I'm not
even using emacs at the moment and I've gotten busy with other
projects / work, so it'd be great if somebody was interested enough to
take over.