The recent discussion on debian-emacsen about Emacs 22 has prompted me to rethink my involvement in Emacs for Debian, and I realized that I have ignored the GFDL problem for much too long. There is now very little hope for a reversal of this situation, and for better or worse, GNU manuals are now considered non-free in Debian. I have absolutely no intention of stripping emacs-snapshot of its manuals. I consider this solution both a disservice to our users, and an insult to the upstream developers (and since I am somewhat active upstream, this includes myself). Moving emacs-snapshot itself to non-free (which is, as we all know, not part of Debian) isn't attractive either. The conclusion is that I have chosen to orphan emacs-snapshot, effective in the just uploaded version 20070302-1 which corresponds to Emacs 22.0.95, possibly the last pretest before the 22.1 release. This will leave me without a usable Debian-packaged version of Emacs, I am therefore also orphaning the following packages: - tramp - bongo I will also stop acting as a sponsor for the following packages: - erc - emacs-wiki - muse-el - planner-el - remember-el Cheers, -- ,''`. : :' : Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> `. `' http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ `-
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