Re: pkg/51757 (pkgsrc/editor/emacs doesn't build default emacs-25.1)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51757; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/51757 (pkgsrc/editor/emacs doesn't build default emacs-25.1)
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 06:38:32 +0000

 On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 06:05:00AM +0000, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
  >  >  Yes they are:
  >  >  
  >  >   >  .else
  >  >   >  VER=	${_EMACS_VERSION_MAJOR}
  >  >   >  REV=	0
  >  >   >  .endif
  >  >  
  >  >  which is fine, if you read the comment explaining what those versions
  >  >  are for.
  >  
  >  Ok, I see.  I wonder why bulkbuild can't catch this failure.
 
 It's a metapackage. So until it was fixed, if emacs-snapshot built,
 you just got an emacs metapackage depending on the wrong thing, and if
 emacs-snapshot didn't build, it'd get skipped and you'd have to look
 at the failure report pretty closely to notice it was doing the wrong
 thing.
 
 It should probably be made more robust, but I don't immediately see a
 good way.
 
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 David A. Holland
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