Arnaud Fontaine <ar...@debian.org> writes: >>> I have almost finished preparing emacs-snapshot[0] and as I said to >>> Rob, my plan is to keep emacs-snapshot package as close as possible >>> to emacsXY package. I know that you've been working on unversioning >>> emacs package (BTW Where is that repository?). >> >> How many of the existing add-on packages in sid have you tested with >> your emacs-snapshot package? Do you have some plan to prevent/manage >> breakage of add-ons by a new upload of emacs-snapshot? It seems like >> every upload is potentially like a library transition, in that changes >> in emacs tend to break add-on packages. > > I use it myself on a daily basis for a few months (and Dima for much > longer so he may know more than me about that) with around 20 add-ons. > Except the fact that old-style backquotes have been removed for which I > have a few patches ready (and which is something that will have to be > deal for emacs26 anyway AFAIK), I have not had any problem so far.
I have no automated testing in my out-of-archive emacs-snapshot builds. It would be great to have. Rob: how do you usually do this in your packages?
