Re: debian-changelog-mode
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 09:45:33AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 08-Dec-00, 03:11 (CST), 99.roland.mas@aist.enst.fr wrote:
> > Chris Lawrence (2000-12-08 02:35:40 -0600) :
> >
> > > On Dec 07, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm wondering why it's called "dpkg-dev-emacs" instead of
> > > > "dpkg-dev-el".
> > >
> > > Or even debian-changelog-mode...
> >
> > Okay people, you agree on a name and I'll rename the package :-)
>
> I guess my real question is "why isn't this part of dpkg-dev?" Or
> devscripts?
It used to be. It was removed from dpkg, because no one who's worked
on dpkg in a while wanted to be responsible for it, and because having
emacs as a build dependency for dpkg was getting to be a pain.
Dan
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