Re: Bug#607933: not much of a "snapshot" if not updated often

[Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

tags 607933 + wontfix
thanks

On December 25, 2010 at 12:37AM +0800,
jidanni (at jidanni.org) wrote:

> X-debbugs-Cc: emacs-w3m@xxxxxxxxxx, rfrancoise@xxxxxxxxxx
> Package: w3m-el-snapshot
> Version: 1.4.400+0.20100725-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The w3m-el-snapshot package is not much of a "snapshot" if not updated
> often, thus bug reporting gets more and more difficult. Maybe it should
> be maintained in conjunction/with the emacs-snapshot package. Thanks.

I don't have plans for daily/weekly packaging of w3m-el-snapshot on
Debian.

For upgrading to the latest development version of emacs-w3m with
Debian packaging, I suggest you to use the uupdate command included
with the devscripts package.

Example for upgrading w3m-el-snapshot from 1.4.400+0.20100725 to 20101227:

  # apt-get build-dep w3m-el-snapshot wget fakeroot devscripts
  $ wget http://cvs.namazu.org/emacs-w3m.tar.gz
  $ apt-get source w3m-el-snapshot
  $ cd w3m-el-snapshot-1.4.400+0.20100725
  $ uupdate -v 1.4.400+0.20101227 ../emacs-w3m.tar.gz
  $ diff -urN . ../w3m-el-snapshot-1.4.400+0.20101227 | pager
  $ cd ../w3m-el-snapshot-1.4.400+0.20101227
  $ dch
  $ debuild -uc -us
  $ debuild clean
  # dpkg -i ../w3m-el-snapshot_1.4.400+0.20101227-1_all.deb

If the uupdate command fails with the latest emacs-w3m.tar.gz, you
may file a "wishlist" bug report to Debian BTS.  I'll try to fix
the bug.

Thanks,
-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita