Bug#53849: PROPOSAL: emacs/tex downgrading to optional

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist

I've proposed downgrading the following packages to optional:

tetex-lib, tetex-base, tetex-bin, emacs20, emacs20-el, emacsen-common

The discussion (which I've made available in mbox format at
http://master.debian.org/~rcw/emacs-tex-downgrading) has the following
opinions:

* One question and what appears to be an informal objection
* Tangent discussions about what else should be standard (X, compiler
  subsystem)
* One second
* Eleven other messages in favor

There have been no formal objections, I hope that's enough concensus to
move forward.

If so, policy should be patched in a manner similar to the following:

--- policy.sgml	Sat Jan  1 16:42:08 2000
+++ policy.sgml	Sat Jan  1 16:43:48 2000
@@ -556,11 +556,7 @@
                These packages provide a reasonably small but not too
                limited character-mode system.  This is what will
                install by default if the user doesn't select anything
-               else.  It doesn't include many large applications, but
-               it does include Emacs (this is more of a piece of
-               infrastructure than an application) and a reasonable
-               subset of TeX and LaTeX (if this is possible without
-               X).</p>
+               else.  It doesn't include many large applications.</p>
            </item>
            <tag><tt>optional</tt></tag>
            <item>

Once this proposal reaches the stage where policy is ready to be changed,
please reassign the bug to include ftp.debian.org.

Thanks!
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
"Anybody else wanna negotiate?" -- The Fifth Element