Personally, I love emacs-snapshort very much. I even installed a version from Debian unstable. Please vote for this app to include in ubuntu.
emacs-snapshot?
Archived thread 77931 from Closed Requests. Markdown source: Closed_Requests/thread_77931_emacs-snapshot.md
What's the difference from normal emacs?
What's the difference from normal emacs? Here's the change log
emacs-snapshot (1:20051007-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New snapshot: + BibTeX mode now honors `sentence-end-double-space' and other filling variables, thanks to Roland Winkler (closes: #330917). + Autoloads in cua-base and ibuf-ext no longer explicitely request the .el file (closes: #332315). + Includes Speedbar version 1.0.
* debian/patches/tmp-build-fix.dpatch: Temporary patch reverting unimportant changes that break the emacs-nox build. * debian/patches/00list: Update.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:41:44 +0200
emacs-snapshot (1:20050929-1) unstable; urgency=low
* The "Dittsche" release.
* New snapshot.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:52:15 +0200
emacs-snapshot (1:20050922-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New snapshot.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:23:16 +0200
emacs-snapshot (1:20050918-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New snapshot.
* Add linda overrides, bringing the override support level with lintian. + debian/*.overrides: Rename to debian/*.overrides.lintian. + debian/emacs-bin-common.overrides.linda: New file. + debian/emacs-common.overrides.linda: Ditto. + debian/emacs-el.overrides.linda: Ditto. + debian/emacs.overrides.linda: Ditto.
* debian/patches/debian-version-mention.dpatch: Fix patch description to mention emacs-version and not version as the function modified.
* debian/rules: + Update lintian override filenames. + Install linda overrides. + Remove useless '--with-gif' confflag.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:33:30 +0200
emacs-snapshot (1:20050908-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New snapshot.
* debian/rules: Compress all files in emacs-el.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:33:23 +0200
emacs-snapshot (1:20050901-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New snapshot.
* debian/patches/debian-rpath.dpatch: New file, disables RPATH in emacs-x and emacs-gtk binaries. * debian/patches/00list: Update.
* debian/emacs-bin-common.overrides: Add overrides for man pages installed as alternatives: their section is correct, and the binaries do have man pages.
* debian/emacs-common.overrides: Add override for the "wrong name for upstream changelog" check: it's a directory, and it holds the (many) upstream changelogs (and the top-level changelog is now symlinked, too).
* debian/rules: + Strip the dpatch-list-patch header line. + Symlink upstream top-level changelog. + Swap fixed and variable parts in changelog file names.
* debian/patches/debian-cssc-vc-backend.dpatch: Add "Provided by" line. * debian/patches/debian-font-lock-tty.dpatch: Ditto. * debian/patches/debian-licenses-location.dpatch: Ditto. * debian/patches/debian-vc-bfn.dpatch: Ditto. * debian/patches/debian-version-mention.dpatch: Ditto.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:25:51 +0200
emacs-snapshot (1:20050825-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New snapshot.
* debian/emacs-bin-common.prerm: Fix buggy loop left over from pre-unstable packaging, because of this no alternatives were actually removed when emacs-bin-common was removed... (closes: #324870).
* debian/emacs-bin-common.postinst: + In emacs-snapshot, the binary named 'emacs' is moved out of the way before expanding @ALTERNATIVES@ so it doesn't appear in the list. Don't special-case for it in emacs-bin-common.postinst as it'll never be there. + Remove unused INFOFILES variable.
* debian/rules: + Add upstream changelogs in /usr/share/doc so that users can have access to them without downloading 30M of sources. It doesn't make much difference in a package that occupies more than 50M and has some real value for users since emacs-snapshot is a constantly moving target. + Don't install menu items for emacs-nox.
* debian/patches/debian-licenses-location.dpatch: New patch, modifies `describe-copying' to find the full text of the GPL in the system-wide location for licenses (/usr/share/common-licenses), the COPYING file included in the Emacs distribution isn't installed (and differs from the Debian version in whitespace only).
* New versioning scheme: the overly large version number in previous uploads triggered a bug in quinn-diff which resulted in emacs-snapshot not appearing in q-d output and thus not being rebuilt on some archs. The bug has been fixed in quinn-diff (thanks to Ryan Murray) but to prevent any further damage, I'm changing the versioning scheme to something sane (and mandated by Policy, see §3.2.1). The historical versioning scheme was of doubtful value anyway.
* debian/changelog: Delete trailing whitespace in pre-unstable entries.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:35:13 +0200
emacs-snapshot (20050819140000-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New snapshot.
* debian/rules: README.Debian is generated from the list of Debian patches and its size varies depending on the number of patches, so dh_compress sometimes compresses it, and sometimes not. To avoid having to fix the references in debian/copyright and NEWS, forcibly leave it uncompressed.
* debian/patches/image-pbm-xbm.dpatch: Dropped (fixed upstream). * debian/patches/00list: Update.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:34:53 +0200
emacs-snapshot (20050812140000-2) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/patches/image-pbm-xbm.dpatch: New file, revert an upstream change that erroneously removes the pbm and xbm image types. * debian/patches/00list: Update.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:00:22 +0200
emacs-snapshot (20050812140000-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New snapshot: + Fixes a bug triggered by GTK+ 2.6.9 where opened menus could disappear randomly in emacs-snapshot-gtk (closes: #322307). + Includes Tramp 2.0.50.
* debian/patches/debian-emacs-news.dpatch: Fix reference to README.Debian, it isn't compressed automatically in emacs-snapshot (it's now installed by dh_installdocs).
* debian/changelog: + Fix name of NEWS file in previous entry. + Add mode to the local variables section.
* debian/rules: + Set pkg_name for emacs-common and emacs-bin-common to fix the generation of lintian override files. + Set flavour description. + Pipe dpatch-list-patch output to sed to generate outline compliant headings, the outline regexp used in the emacs21 packages doesn't match in emacs-snapshot, and it's simpler to have regular outline sections in the file in the first place.
* debian/copyright.in: + Use the new FSF postal address (updated in COPYING in the Emacs sources). + Add 2005 to copyright years. + Fix location of README.Debian. * debian/copyright: Regenerate.
* debian/patches/debian-font-lock-tty.dpatch: Add outline markers. * debian/patches/debian-vc-bfn.dpatch: Ditto.
* debian/patches/debian-cssc-vc-backend.dpatch: Add dpatch description marker (caused an empty patch description in README.Debian).
* debian/control.in: Add flavour description to the short description of the main package, which is emacs-snapshot in this source package (closes: #322180). * debian/control: Regenerate.
* debian/README.in: + Add information section stolen from the initial NEWS entry. + Remove paragraph about .elc files and Leim being added to the upstream sources: these packages are built from a snapshot tarball for which neither of these things is true. + Remove local variables section. + Add note about the baz archive.
* debian/emacs.menu.in: Add -i option to the menu command item in order to get the Emacs icon in the GNOME window list (and equivalent features in other desktop environments). * debian/emacs.desktop: Ditto.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:51:10 +0200
emacs-snapshot (20050805100000-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial snapshot release in unstable. See NEWS.Debian.gz for general information on these packages.
* debian/control.in: + Set myself as Maintainer, Jerome and Rob as Uploaders. + Bump dpatch build-dependency to dpatch (>= 2.0.9). + Bump Standards-Version to 3.6.2, no changes needed. + Fix Replaces line on emacs21. * debian/control: Regenerate.
* debian/rules: + Add -Wno-pointer-sign to CFLAGS. + Generate debian/README.Debian from the templates.
* debian/NEWS: New file.
* debian/patches/debian-font-lock-tty.dpatch: New file. * debian/patches/debian-vc-bfn.dpatch: New file. * debian/patches/00list: Update.
* Several other minor changes, see the baz log.
-- Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:41:18 +0200
emacs-snapshot (20050519215621-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New snapshot release.
* Do not force epaths re-generation after calls to configure any more since configure now provides a '--enable-locallisppath' - debian/rules: + Add --enable-locallisppath option to confflags + Remove epaths_force_cmd function + Remove calls to epaths_force_cmd
-- Jerome Marant <jerome@debian.org> Thu, 19 May 2005 22:07:33 +0200
emacs-snapshot (20050425220908-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Merge fixes from Davide Salvetti <salve@debian.org> - debian/patches/misc-unseparated.dpatch: Remove hunks.
* Incorporated fixes from Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>: - debian/rules: + Don't prefix local_lpath paths with EMACS_COMMON + Add new epaths_force_cmd + Add calls to epaths_force_cmd after every call to configure + Add new variable local_lpath_install which prefixes all paths from local_lpath with EMACS_COMMON + Set locallisppath to local_lpath_install at install-time
-- Jerome Marant <jerome@debian.org> Thu, 12 May 2005 21:57:05 +0200
emacs-snapshot (20050425220908-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New snapshot release.
* Merge changes from 21.4a-1
* debian/control: - Switch Maintainer and Uploaders fields. - Build-depend on dpatch >= 2.0.9.
* debian/rules: properly install emacs-snapshot-nox manpage.
* debian/patches/misc-unseparated.dpatch: - Fix docstring for message-sendmail-f-is-evil: the first line of a docstring should be a complete sentence describing the function. Thanks to Kai Großjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> - Updated patch to etc/NEWS.
-- Jerome Marant <jerome@debian.org> Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:37:09 +0200
emacs-snapshot (20040508-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial release. This package is branched from emacs21 21.3+1-5.
* Port package to debhelper [Jérôme Marant] - debian/control.in: added debhelper to build-dependencies. - debian/control: regenerated. - debian/rules - debian/build-binary-pkg: removed. - debian/compat: new file containing debhelper compatibility version. - debian/docs: new file. - debian/emacs-common.docs: new file.
* Add GTK+ 2.x support (#179469, #194388) [Jérôme Marant] - debian/control.in: add new package emacs-gtk - debian/control: regenerated. - debian/rules
* Remove upstream applied patches [Jérôme Marant] - debian/patches/scroll-margin.dpatch - debian/patches/save-buffer.dpatch - debian/patches/hurd-libio-glibc.dpatch - debian/patches/detect-coding-iso2022.dpatch - debian/patches/browse-url.dpatch - debian/patches/battery-acpi-support.dpatch
-- Jerome Marant <jerome@debian.org> Sat, 8 May 2004 14:42:33 +0200
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I'm looking forward to this package too :p
I have made instructions here, but please use with caution: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=476487#post476487
Mike
I will not be submitting my emacs-snapshot package to the offical backports since it is built from the Debian Unstable source and not Dapper source.
Mike
You could also propose emacs-snapshot to be included in dapperdrake
emacs-snapshot has been added to Dapper, approved for backport.
Mike
Done deal.
Done deal.
Is it available? I can't see it.
Definitely available in Dapper. You should look for the package emacs-snapshot.
Yep. but it breaks a lot of packages in Breezy. But there is a backport for breezy anyway.