Bug#944986: ITP: emacs-wgrep -- edit multiple files simultaneously in Emacs using grep buffers--pattern editing

[Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
Control: tag + moreinfo

Package name    : emacs-wgrep
Version         : 2.3.0
Upstream Author : Masahiro Hayashi <mhayashi1120@gmail.com>
URL             : https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-wgrep
License         : GPL-3+
Programming Lang: Emacs LISP
Description     : edit multiple files simultaneously in Emacs using grep buffers--pattern editing

Wgrep for Emacs enables writeable grep buffers.  It is a maintained
fork of Matsushita Akihisa's grep-edit.el.  I have not yet tested it,
and am packaging it as a new dependency of src:emacs-ivy_0.13.0.  I am
supposing that it is something like an interactive sed shell that
enables multiple files to be edited simultaneously using patterns,
because if it can't do this then its primary value when compared to
the built-in M-x replace-regexp is probably buffer persistence (vs
replace-regexp's ephemeral minibuffer).

I would be maintaining it as part of the Debian Emacsen Team and will
require a sponsor for the initial upload.

I have marked this bug as "moreinfo" because while upstream provides
GPL-3+ headers for all files, a LICENSE or COPYING file is not present
for this multi-file work, Masahiro Hayashi does not note his copyright
anywhere in the project, and more importantly Matsushita Akihisa's
2002-2009 automatic-copyright-on-fixation is not mentioned anywhere.
Assuming all of his work hasn't been replaced in this fork, I think
that's probably a blocker.  I will contact upstream about these issues
before proceeding with packaging this software for Debian.


Regards,
Nicholas