RFC: Emacs add-on packages and make.

["Davide G. M. Salvetti" <salve@debian.org>]

Hi,

I had a look at the way other emacs add-on package maintainers do
things WRT the new emacs-policy, and saw some packages use make in
their `/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/{install,remove}' scripts.

While this make it easier to build and maintain add-on packages, it
also means add-on packages using make should `Depends: make', which is
currently not always true.

I filed bug reports against calc, psgml and vm about this.

Now I wonder what's the Right Thing to do: should we let emacs add-on
packages depend on `make' (which, after all, is `Priority: standard'),
or should we try and not to use make at all in those scripts?

Waiting for comments,

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