why don’t debian maintainers update emacs to the latest releases in sid and testing ? reddit / emacs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Specialist-Lynx-5220 · 2022-08-11 19:43 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ieure · 2022-08-11 19:51 It's being worked on. Emacs in Debian is maintained by a single developer. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1009169 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- anaumann · 2022-08-11 20:12 There is the option of installing emacs via snap, if you really want something newer desperately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ieure · 2022-08-11 20:16 Adding, [emacs-snapshot](https://github.com/dkogan/emacs-snapshot) is an option. I believe the prebuilt .debs only work on testing or sid, but they build cleanly on bullseye, too (because I PR'd changes to support it). I've been running it for the last year or so, I typically rebuild once a month or thereabouts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- georgehank2nd · 2022-08-11 20:18 There is always the option of installing it the old-school way… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- anaumann · 2022-08-11 20:21 That, too.. But as much as I dislike having 500 package managers for non-specialized packages on my system, having emacs with nativecomp without TOO much hassle is quite nice.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- pm-your-jhanas · 2022-08-11 21:47 I use slackware, I never felt truly comfortable with debian, for various which are not currently relevant, but I have more time for it than a lot of distros and derivatives. In slackware 15 I was able to download the slackbuilds, latest emacs source and build the package against the libraries on my system... it works perfectly. I'm unsure what goes into making a debian package but are you not able to do something similar... ie build a new .deb package using the latest emacs source and previous build instructions appropriately edited? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- groundcrate · 2022-08-11 22:22 Install it via Guix! It's in the Debian repos since bullseye. `guix package -i emacs-next --with-branch=emacs-next=master` should compile it from git for you. The Guix developers also freeze emacs- next to a reasonable commit every once in a while. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TelcDunedain · 2022-08-11 22:48 Just to be clear - apt install guix and then you install emacs into your user profile. This is what I do and I recommend it if you are guix curious and semi technical. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FLMKane · 2022-08-11 23:23 Install from source? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jandrusk · 2022-08-12 01:25 Thanks for this; I usually compile Emacs from source and this seems to be a somewhat safer option and I've been curious about guix. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- a-hausmann · 2022-08-12 02:08 Looks like I need to check out David Wilson's videos on using Guix as package manager. I knew he's switched over to using Guix OS, so didn't really delve into using Guix package manager in my Pop!OS system. This could be very good for me... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This_Is_The_End · 2022-08-12 07:27 Get used to an arched based distro like Manjaro or maintain a installation from source. The latter can become an issue. For example I wanted to install Python 10 on Debian for WSL Windows, but the OpenSSL-lib was too old for Python 10 and compiling such libs, is a hassle. I have Manjaro since may because f such issues with Ubuntu and Debian. It's working well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legitimate-Tie7980 · 2022-08-12 14:45 I can vouch for guix. Easiest way I've found to get the newest version of Emacs installed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- from1917til · 2022-08-12 15:11 Switching distro because one package happens to be outdated is terrible advice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This_Is_The_End · 2022-08-12 19:55 When one package makes a problem it will become a problem for more than one package. Compiling OpenSSL for Python 10 is such a case. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- whhone · 2022-08-19 16:12 It is in sid now :-) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1009169;msg=30