xemacs.koldfront.dk
... an XEmacs a day

What is xemacs-snapshot?

Heavily inspired by Romain Francoise's emacs-snapshot, xemacs.koldfront.dk tries to supply daily Debian packages of the current development XEmacs Mercurial repository.

Currently packages are only produced for the Debian unstable distribution, only for amd64, and only the mule-version with xft enabled is built.

Latest version

Currently in the repository:

sid|main|amd64: xemacs-snapshot 21.5-20100310hg
sid|main|amd64: xemacs-snapshot-bin 21.5-20100310hg
sid|main|amd64: xemacs-snapshot-mule 21.5-20100310hg
sid|main|amd64: xemacs-snapshot-support 21.5-20100310hg
sid|main|amd64: xemacs-snapshot-supportel 21.5-20100310hg
sid|main|source: xemacs-snapshot 21.5-20100310hg

Installation

Put the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://xemacs.koldfront.dk sid main
deb-src http://xemacs.koldfront.dk sid main

- then run aptitude update and aptitude install xemacs-snapshot

Archive key

The packages are signed with my repository GnuPG-key (1717F8C3):

pub   4096R/1717F8C3 2009-08-03
uid                  koldfront unofficial Debian package repository <repo@koldfront.dk>

- which you may want to install, by running (once):

wget -O - http://xemacs.koldfront.dk/key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Known problems

There is some problem with XEmacs 21.5 and the Debian package emacs-goodies-el - I haven't had time to look into it. The symptom is that the installation of the xemacs-snapshot packages fails, and you have to run dpkg --configure -a. Or you can simply remove emacs-goodies-el (that is what I did).

Reporting bugs

Do not file bugs in the Debian bug tracking system about these packages.

Feel free to contact me if I have bungled up the packaging, if you want to help, or want to comment on something.

If you want to help improve the packaging, you can send patches to me against the git-repository of the debian/-dir that I use to create the packages.

Disclaimer

These packages are strictly unofficial and not related to Debian proper.

They may very well be horribly mangled and unfit for your purposes.

You have been warned. Have fun!