Re: Proposed backport: emacs-non-dfsg_30.1+1-1~bpo12+1

Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:33:18 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello,

On Tue 25 Mar 2025 at 07:11pm -07, Ted Romer wrote:

> True enough -- my current approach is to download the package for sid
> and install it directly.
>
> Not super pertinent, other than that your response prompted to me read
> more of the apt documentation: I've instead added "deb
> http://deb.debian.org/debian sid non-free" to sources.list, and
> created  /etc/apt/preferences.d/sid.pref:
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release n=sid
> Pin-Priority: 2
>
> (By default packages from bookworm and sid both get priority 500, and
> packages from bookworm-backports get priority 100.)
>
> And then ran apt install emacs-common-non-dfsg.

Right, that's what I do, basically.

> WDYT about closing the bug?

Closedl

> I can post this solution on the stackexchange question that led me
> here in the first place.

Please do that -- thanks!

-- 
Sean Whitton

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