Possible incompatibility between jed-extra-0.1.8 and jed-0.99.17 (fwd)

[G. Milde]

On 18.03.06, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
 
> I have indirect evidence (via ubuntu where their jed editor has been at
> least partially taken from the Debian experimental package for jed-0.99.17)
> that jed-extra-0.1.8 may not be compatible with the Debian
> experimental/ubuntu packaging of jed-0.99.17. 

You are right, these packages are incompatible (at least partially).
This is exactly the reason why jed-0.99.17.nnn is not yet in unstable
but in experimental.

> One possibility is Ubuntu have screwed up, but jed is part of the
> Ubuntu universe where the packaging is normally simply copied from
> Debian so I suspect the trouble may lie with the Debian packaging of
> jed-0.99.17.

They have screwed it up by combining jed-0.99.17 (and SLang2)
with jed-extra (if both are on Ubuntu and not only combined on your box
by installing from different repositories.


We are in the process of releasing a "slang-2-safe" version of
jed-extra. If you want to help testing, I can mail you a copy of the
unpublished new version or you get it via SVN (see
http://pkg-jed.alioth.debian.org/).

Alternatively, you could go to http://jedmodes.sf.net/ and selectively
install up to date upstream sources (preferabely in a private ~/.jed/lib/
directory). (Report problems with a current mode from Jedmodes to its
author or the Jedmodes users list jedmodes-users at lists.sourceforge.net.)

Sincerely

Guenter

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