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Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages

From	Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages
Date	2025-07-18 11:20 +0200
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Hello,

On Wed 16 Jul 2025 at 11:59am -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:

> This makes the development easier so that I don't have to sbuild it
> every time to test (which takes ~20min for me).  Also, running the
> script needs a working emacs executable (I'm using `/usr/bin/emacs')
> which is not available yet during build (or it can some built emacs
> executable in some build-path, but I think it's a bit too fragile).

That wouldn't be fragile, and it's what we should be doing.  We don't
want to use /usr/bin/emacs.  We want to be sure we are using the latest
information, from the thing we are building.

> And I realize that because I removed the vendored lisp functions to get
> the built-in package information, the script currently cannot work until
> Emacs with the backported package.el is released.  So probably we should
> upload -6 first (in experimental)?

This would also be solved by using the Emacs that's part of the build.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2025-06-17 03:10 +0200
  Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-18 16:20 +0200
    Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2025-06-19 04:10 +0200
      Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-19 14:50 +0200
        Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-06-20 13:40 +0200
          Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-04 14:40 +0200
            Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-04 22:50 +0200
              Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-15 11:20 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-15 23:00 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-16 11:40 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-16 20:40 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-18 11:20 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-20 16:40 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-21 10:30 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-15 23:00 +0200
                Bug#1103033: emacs: generate versioned Provides for all :core packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-16 12:10 +0200

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