Re: Discussion about why GNU/Linux system upgrades cause old programs to break

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:04:14 +0200

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Arsen Arsenović <[email protected]> writes:

> This is because we're acting as integrators of said old Emacsen with
> current software.
>
> Here's, for instance, our recipe for building Emacs 24:
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/emacs.git/tree/app-editors/emacs/emacs-24.5-r11.ebuild

This actually is great, because it references the patches used:

https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/emacs/emacs-24.5-patches-5.tar.xz

Would some of them be useful for Emacs upstream (i.e. for a new release
of Emacs 24)?

From what I can tell, these are backports from newer Emacs releases that
ensure that old Emacses still work with new systems.

Best wishes,
Arne
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