Re: debian-changelog-mode
On Dec 08, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.
Why would including an .el file in a package make emacs a build
dependency? html-helper-mode provides two .el files (and the .deb
does depend on emacsen), but there's nothing that calls emacs in the
build sequence. All the calls to emacs would go in the postinst and
postrm (see the Debian Emacs policy), and can be conditional on
whether emacs is actually installed.
Now, I can see an issue with testing the byte-compilation when you
dpkg -i if you don't have emacs installed on the build machine...
Chris
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