Re: Debian installation bug report with current package and Emacs 28.1

Lionel Henry via ESS-help <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Sep 2022 17:33:22 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.ess.general
Message-ID <CAAkLcbtF2X+JG_2eZpGp2cKtT6eW39uxJ4GQ22Po4-AOL8hEFA@mail.gmail.com>
Martin, did you have other concerns besides the freeze that we have
determined is an interaction between polymode and large `.libPaths()`,
rather than a bug in ESS?

If not, I think we should think about a release.

Best,
Lionel

On 9/13/22, Dirk Eddelbuettel via ESS-help <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> A follow-up to this bug report: Due to the breakage caused by the (old) ess
> package, I (as maintainer of the Debian package) now received the note that
> the ess / elpa-ess packages will be archived away from Debian unstable as
> they make Emacs 28.1 uninstallable.
>
> So future Debian releases will not have ess / elpa-ess package.  Of course
> installation from other sources remains possible.
>
> We debated here for some time what to do about a new ESS release, but with
> nothing concrete to show, and this is now a consequence of (in)action.  We
> are all between a rock and a hard place: the upstream is 'not quite right'
> for a release so none happens, yet Debian users want Emacs 28.1.  So there.
>
> Dirk
>
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