Re: XEmacs Packages have been formally released
Ar an seachtú lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Hauke Fath:
[...] I found a while ago [1] when (pkgsrc-)packaging the
then-beta/experimental/packages that the above leim-1.38 broke subsequent
xemacs package builds, i.e. I had to deinstall editors/xemacs-packages
before a successful xemacs{,-current} build.
[...] [1]
<http://list-archive.xemacs.org/archive/list/xemacs-beta＠xemacs.org/thread...
OK, I’ll look into that and fix it. Renaming the file in leim will certainly
work, but there may be a more constructive way.
At the time, I worked around the issue by downgrading to leim-1.31,
which was still available in packages/. Presumably, nothing substantial
has changed in leim-1.38, and the build problem persists.
Would it be possible to create a fallback directory (old-packages/ or
somesuch) to provide the previous release?
Possible, sure. Should we encourage this, or should we fix the issues that
prompt the need for it?
Thanks for your work and input on this!
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