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My goal for the week is to get a working emacs22 package into Ubuntu gutsy, and to ensure that its documentation and the GNU Manifesto never get stripped out into a separate package.

This also involves updating quite a few emacs lisp packages to work with emacs22.

I've got an initial build of emacs22 ready, and am testing it on a few machines. I've also updated the nxml-mode, w3m-el, and emacs-goodies-el packages, sent their Debian maintainers patches, and pushed the updated packages to REVU.

I'm waiting on a response from a Ubuntu devel about my emacs22 package before deciding what to do with it. I might need the Ubuntu equivalent of a sponsor, since the package would probably go into main, rather than universe. It might be too much work to provide feisty backports for all this stuff; haven't decided yet.

For the brave, the emacs22 package for gutsy (and other updated emacs lisp packages) can be obtained by adding the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Please do not paste these instructions to http://emacswiki.org or anywhere else public quite yet — if I do end up making backports or maintaining these outside of Ubuntu (which I'd really prefer not to do), I will move the packages to a server with a faster connection.

deb http://mwolson.org/ubuntu/emacs ./
deb-src http://mwolson.org/ubuntu/emacs ./