[AUCTeX-devel] Re: concerns in the documentation

[John A. Martin]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup
>>>>> "Re: Re: concerns in the documentation"
>>>>>  Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:10:42 +0200

    David> "John A. Martin" <address@hidden> writes:
    >>>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup "Re: Re: concerns in the
    >>>>>>> documentation" Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:18:29 +0200
    >>
    David> Removing it from Sumo would mean that we could start
    David> providing packages for operating system distributions
    David> without package conflicts, and those packages would also be
    David> automatically active.
    >>
    >> Removing AUCTex from Sumo might also encourage the Debian
    >> AUCTex package to depend upon _either_ GNU Emacs _or_ XEmacs
    >> instead of upon only GNU Emacs if that is feasible.

    David> Frankly, I shudder to think what the Debian Emacsen policy
    David> system happens to make from the combined Sumo and upstream
    David> AUCTeX packages...  I can't imagine the results to be very
    David> robust and comprehensible.

The current Debian AUCTex package depends upon emacs21 or
emacs-snapshot and says in its description

        Currently XEmacs ships with its own AUCTeX, so this package
        should only be used with GNU/Emacs. (I.e., you don't need to
        install this package if your site uses only XEmacs.)

and the package maintainers have consistently rejected 'Wontfix'
wishlist bugs to depend upon XEmacs.  See for example Debian bug
#63513:

        Last time I checked xemacs21 shipped with its own auctex.  I
        will check again, and if this is the case no more I will add
        xemacs21 to the next package version.

It looks like the AUCTex now packaged with the Debian xemacs21 package
is v11.55.

        jam

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