Dima Kogan <d...@secretsauce.net> writes: > 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?
As far as I know checking is a manual process with the stable emacs uploads. But there are many fewer such uploads. d
