Conall O'Brien <conall+ilug at conall.net> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:24:58PM IST, Brendan Halpin
> <brendan.halpin at ul.ie> incoherently babbled:
>>> I would, occasionally, but before the upgrade I had a similar line
>> in sources.list and emacs-snapshot was updated every 10-14 days
>> without fuss.
>>>> Maybe I should just go back to Debian...
>> If the repository you were using for emacs-snapshots also offers src
> packages, you could download and build the snapshot for Ubuntu.
>>> Since you have found a specific niche, you could even go a step further
> and share your packages, contributing to the Ubuntu community...
To follow up belatedly -- I've gone back to Debian and now have a
3-day-old emacs-shapshot. In response to Conall's last point, I
suspect I will make a more useful contribution to the community by
stumbling across emacs bugs than by packaging emacs-snapshot.
Brendan
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