Re: New DFSG-compliant emacs packages

[Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>]

Le jeudi 26 octobre 2006 16:30, vous avez écrit :
> Yavor Doganov <yavor@doganov.org> wrote:
> 
> > Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > > 
> > > Please report any problem related to these changes ASAP. Thanks.
> > 
> > Not exactly a technical problem, but as a humble user and member of
> > the local flock of the GNU Emacs Church, I find the output of `M-x
> > emacs-version' rather deceptive.  This trivial patch should fix it:
> > 
> > ++         "GNU Emacs %s (%s%s%s)\n of %s on %s, crippled by Debian"
> 
> There was a vote.  This new package abides by the results it and remains
> free.  As a bonus, they went to the trouble of packaging the docs into
> `emacs21-common-non-dfsg' and you still complain?  They could have
> simply dropped the docs altogether; they didn't.  All they have done is
> separate the package into a part that the FSF says you can _completely_
> and freely modify, and another part that the FSF says you can't.
> Install the available non-free package and get over it.
> 
> Jérôme, I for one am glad for all the work you put into Emacs for debian.

Credits shall go to Rob first since he implemented the most of DFSG split.
I gave a hand for missing parts. The changelog does not lie :-)

Cheers,  

-- 
Jérôme Marant