Re: Bug#899221: [medium size project] break up emacs-goodies-el into many elpafied packages

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Sat, Jun 09 2018, David Bremner wrote:

> Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> P.P.S. I can start with one of debian-el, devscripts-el, or
>> dpkg-dev-el as a proof of concept, and it will also be easier to just
>> iterate over the *.els once these exceptions have been dealt with.  I
>> assume that they ought to remain grouped together and become
>> elpa-debian-el, elpa-devscripts.el, and elpa-dpkg-dev.el, with
>> repositories on salsa named debian-el, devscripts-el, and
>> dpkg-dev-el.
>
> I've actually done this, before finding this message.
>
> See
>
>         https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dpkg-dev-el
>         https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/debian-el
>
> The former depends on the latter, as it turns out.
>
> FWIW, I don't think any binary package ought to start with "elpa" and
> end "-el" or "\.el", but other than that I'm flexible about the
> naming.
>
> I (so-far) had the idea that "dpkg-dev", and "debian" could be
> upstream packages in e.g. melpa-stable. OTOH, "debian" is annoyingly
> generic, so that might have to change.

If they are native packages, they should not be published to MELPA.

I think they should probably be native packages.

-- 
Sean Whitton