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The native compilation part is the highlight. Could someone who knows about these things explain the difficulty Debian has in getting emacs 28 in -unstable ? (

• AlexCoventry 5y ago
  FWIW, emacs is extremely easy to build from source.
  • gjvc 5y ago
    it is, and i do, but i got bored of doing that a few years ago, and prefer to use 100% packaged stuff.
    • WhatIsDukkha 5y ago
      apt install guix :) This gives you guix "FD" and its great on top of debian for emacs especially (and you can move a lot of your emacs packages into guix as well). The apt packages handles most of this but its good to follow along a little - https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Installation.html#Installation https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Installati...
      • gjvc 5y ago
        thank you! I will try this now and let you know... very helpful.
• JNRowe 5y ago
  It has only just been released. You can compare the release dates¹ to the package dates² to see how long it tends to take to be packaged and migrate. ¹ https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsReleaseDates https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsReleaseDates ² https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/emacs
  • gjvc 5y ago
    misses the point of my question
• olau 5y ago
  Well, it's a one-man team. I'm not a Debian developer, but did email Rob Browning some years ago, asking if he would perhaps consider trying to make it a team effort. I don't think I ever got a reply. I appreciate the work he's done to maintain Emacs in Debian for decades (!), but it would be nice if someone could give him a hand. For instance, it looks like 27.2 wasn't packaged despite being released a year ago.
  • gjvc 5y ago
    That explains it, thank you.