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Debian distro includes a CVS snapshot

Debian distro includes a CVS snapshot

Posted May 23, 2007 20:31 UTC (Wed) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: Would it help if a distro included a CVS snapshot? by richdawe
Parent article: Waiting for Emacs 22 (and looking forward to Emacs 23)

Check out Debian's emacs-snapshot package. M-x version returns
GNU Emacs 22.0.93.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-02-17 on pacem, modified by Debian

True, it's in the unstable section, but I've been using it for months (>= 6) with roughly zero problems.


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