emacs 21.2-13 available

[Harold L Hunt II]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Mar 16 14:54, Joe Buehler wrote:
> 
>>I haven't uploaded anything in a while so please let me know if
>>there are any new requirements on the part of Cygwin package
>>maintainers or packages...
>>
>>New GNU emacs package files are available at:
>>
>>http://68.98.176.216:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-13/emacs-21.2-13-src.tar.bz2
>>http://68.98.176.216:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-13/emacs-21.2-13.tar.bz2
>>http://68.98.176.216:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-13/emacs-X11/emacs-X11-21.2-13.tar.bz2
>>http://68.98.176.216:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-13/emacs-X11/setup.hint
>>http://68.98.176.216:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-13/emacs-ctags/emacs-ctags-21.2-13.tar.bz2
>>http://68.98.176.216:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-13/emacs-el/emacs-el-21.2-13.tar.bz2
>>http://68.98.176.216:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-13/emacs-el/setup.hint
>>http://68.98.176.216:3000/cygwin/emacs-21.2-13/setup.hint
>>
>>Changes:
>>
>>- recompile against latest XFree86 (the major reason for this release)
>>- setup.hint changes due to rearrangements of various required runtime 
>>libraries
>>- moved documentation from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc
> 
> 
> Note that I'm not an emacs user so I can't tell if the binary works or
> not.  These are just packaging observations:
> 
> - The info pages are still in /usr/info, they should be in /usr/share/info.
> 
> - Ditto for /usr/man vs. /usr/share/man.
> 
> - Don't supply emacs-ctags.  It conflicts with the ctags package which
>   provides an emacs independent ctags (and etags).
> 
> - The emacs-21.2-13.tar.bz2 as well as the emacs-X11/emacs-X11-21.2-13.tar.bz2
>   provide a /usr/bin/emacs.exe binary.  So the emacs packages conflict
>   with each other.

I'd like to maintain the status quo for all of these to get this new 
version released as soon as possible.  A -14 release can contain all of 
these fixes, and I agree that it should follow quickly.

Harold