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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p
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Stefan Kangas |
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Re: Confused by y-or-n-p |
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Thu, 7 Jan 2021 01:41:42 -0800 |
Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>> Does installing from a binary distro (as opposed to from sources built
>> locally) remove previous versions nowadays?
>>
>
> Yes, at least for Debian and Debian derived distributions. Up to and
> including Emacs 25 it was possible to install more than one Emacs, the
> packages names were different for each version (emacs21, ..., emacs25).
> Debian doesn't do this anymore, the package is now just "emacs". I don't
> know why they changed their policy.
Debian dropped their numbered packages to avoid bug reports for very old
versions of Emacs, see e.g.:
"plans to finally drop our emacsXY binary packages, and just have a
single version of Emacs in the archive, so that we no longer have to
deal with bugs due to someone still having emacs21 installed
(David’s idea; Rob’s implementation; Sean’s mostly-helpful
comments)"
https://spwhitton.name/blog/entry/debconf17_reports/
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