Re: most up-to-date emacs packages for debian testing?

[Tom Roche]

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2013-04/msg00376.html
>>> I'm running

>>> $ cat /etc/debian_version
>>> > wheezy/sid
>>> $ emacs-snapshot --version
>>> > GNU Emacs 24.2.50.1

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2013-04/msg00377.html
>> You are behind.  Please upgrade.

I will, but I've gotta finish a particular work item first.

>> I expect that emacs 24 will be available in Backports at some point.
>> Requesting it would probably help that to happen sooner.

Where/how should someone make that request?

>> Perhaps you could ask the emacs.naquadah.org maintainers to provide
>> an updated package?

I was about to do that, then read http://emacs.naquadah.org/ :-) and did

me@it:/etc/apt$ diff -uwB sources.list_20130419 sources.list
... 
> -# for emacs 24 stable: see http://emacs.naquadah.org/
> -deb http://emacs.naquadah.org/ stable/
> -deb-src http://emacs.naquadah.org/ stable/
> +# see http://emacs.naquadah.org/
> +# deb http://emacs.naquadah.org/ stable/
> +# deb-src http://emacs.naquadah.org/ stable/
> +deb http://emacs.naquadah.org/ unstable/
> +deb-src http://emacs.naquadah.org/ unstable/
me@it:~$ sudo aptitude update
...
me@it:~$ sudo aptitude -s install emacs-snapshot
...
me@it:~$ sudo aptitude install emacs-snapshot
...

After some minor fiddling with my init.el and related load-files,
I now have

GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
of 2013-04-10 on dex, modified by Debian

:-) your assistance is appreciated, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>