[arch-general] Emacs package is too stable?

[Kwang Moo Yi]

Hello,

Thanks for the quick response!
Okay, so I guess I should stick to emacs-git in the AUR.
Once the gnu.org infrastructure is back up.
They seem to have a network provider problem at the moment.

Cheers,
Kwang


On 08/12/2016 03:15 PM, Bastian Beischer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Emacs 25.1 is not yet released, but will be soon. The second release 
> candidate is currently being prepared. The version of emacs in extra 
> is the current stable release, and will probably be updated once 25.1 
> is out.
>
> If you want to try emacs 25.1 on Arch you can build it youself from 
> the AUR package emacs25-git.
>
> Cheers
> Bastian
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Kwang Moo Yi via arch-general 
> <arch-general at archlinux.org <mailto:arch-general at archlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I recently started using arch linux and the official package for
>     emacs is a bit outdated compared to the one provided from Fedora,
>     which is where I come from.
>     I understand that the `emacs` package is intended for stable only,
>     so I didn't mark it as outdated.
>     However, current dev release 25.1 is quite stable, and it would be
>     great if it's provided as a binary package, as cloning and
>     building with the AUR package is quite a pain.
>     The stable releases that is available in the extras repo seem like
>     an LTS release.
>     Any plans on packaging for the recent tag releases?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Kwang
>
>
>
>
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