Re: emacs support in dpkg
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 08:51:03AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> If debian-changelog-mode.el goes into emacsen-common (the most logical
> plcae), then, Rob, you are free to take over upstream maintenance of
> debian-changelog-mode.el if you wish. Let me know so I can delete that
> version (so we don't confuse users).
>
> If nothing happens and debian-changelog-mode.el is abandonned. I'll
> eventually upload a new separate package for it. But I don't think that
> would be beneficial to anyone to have it packaged separately.
IIRC, we already discussed about this before. I do not see why a package
containing only that file would be problematic, or not beneficial. Is disk
occupancy the problem? Remember that putting the file in emacsen-common
will make it appear in every box that has a flavor of Emacs installed, even
if the users are not expected to do Debian package development. This would
be a real bloat.
In our archive, there are already a couple of small packages containing only
emacsen add-ons, like prcs-el and octave2.0-emacsen.
At any rate, thanks for your work on debian-changelog-mode.el!
--
Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
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