Re: Emacs 29.1, native compilation, patches 12 and 13

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

Aymeric Agon-Rambosson <aymeric.agon@yandex.com> writes:

> For this reason, I have in my fork 
> (https://salsa.debian.org/ricorambo/deb-emacs) a branch 
> (rico-without-lars-patch) that simply drops patches 12 and 13.
>
> The experiment is the following : for every package maintained by 
> the debian-emacsen team, a build is attempted with the version of 
> emacs in current sid, and another is attempted with the version of 
> emacs from my fork.
>
> If the patches were really useful, there would be at least some 
> elpa-* package that would build correctly on the first attempt, 
> and FTBFS on the second.

First, thanks for your efforts so far. It does make me think you are
probably right, that we can (try to) drop the corresponding patches.

I do have one question (which might be annoying to answer): do the
resulting elpa-* packages install with your patched emacs?  I vaguely
remember some issues with post install byte-compilation.