Re: FW: emacs-goodies-el restructuring
Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org> writes:
>
> > - `emacs-goodies-extra-el' currently holds elisp packages that depend on
> > other Debian packages. It only contains:
> >
> > dict.el: wrapper around the 'dict' command.
>
> There's a package for that? I'd been using a badly done
> home-grown version of it.
>
> It might be more easily found if it were named `dict-el'.
No, it's current the only file in `emacs-goodies-extra-el'.
> > and depends on `dict'. I will be adding `newsticker' soon, which
> > depends on `wget'.
> >
> > I'd like to merge these files into `emacs-goodies-el' and move the
> > `Depends' to `Recommends'. That would kill off one small package that is
> > often overlooked by users.
>
> Sounds reasonable, I guess.
Good, thanks.
> > - Ben Pfaff said he's willing to kill off his debview package and let me
> > merge deb-view.el into emacs-goodies-el, which also contains:
> >
> > apt-sources.el: major mode for editing Debian sources.list files;
> > apt-utils.el: interface to APT (Debian package management);
> >
> > In a similar Debian theme, the package `debbugs-el' contains:
> >
> > debian-bug.el, an Emacs command to submit a bug report.
> > gnus-BTS.el, an enhancement to Gnus to provide buttons on bug
> > numbers seen in Debian-related messages.
> >
> > Perhaps I should kill the `debbugs-el' package and create a `debian-el'
> > package for Debian user tools to hold the five files?
>
> That sounds like a reasonable approach to me.
I'm on a roll.
> > It could be argued that `debian-changelog-mode.el' is also useful for
> > Debian users because it highlights bugs and lets users click on them.
> > But perhaps there should be a diminished user mode without the editing
> > commands?
>
> Wouldn't turning on read-only mode in the buffer have the same
> effect?
Yes and no. I think a diminished debian-changelog-mode that only has
read-only features (such a bug fetching) would be less overwhelming for
users. I don't know maybe not.
Should `debian-changelog-mode' be moved to a user package?
Or stay in dpkg-dev-el ?
Thanks,
Peter
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