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Bug#705059: marked as done (emacs-goodies-el: Time to start winding up this package?)

Your message dated Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:32:02 -0300
with message-id <87sh5bf6fh.fsf@tethera.net>
and subject line yes, winding up in progress
has caused the Debian Bug report #705059,
regarding emacs-goodies-el: Time to start winding up this package?
to be marked as done.

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Package: emacs-goodies-el
Version: 35.2ubuntu2
Severity: wishlist

This package has a large number of outstanding bugs, which are
unlikely (at the present rate) to be resolved either in Debian, or for
that matter upstream (I doubt many upstreams check the Debian BTS).

On the other hand, a major rationale for the existence of the package,
namely to ease the convenient installation of a wide range of Emacs
modes, no longer exists, as ELPA, Marmalade and el-get all cater to this.

ELPA ships with Emacs 24, and el-get is packaged in Debian, so perhaps
it would be more profitable now to defer to them: they are often more
up-to-date than the Debian package, and are better linked to upstream.

emacs-goodies-el has no rdepends, so this would be quite safe to do.
It could usefully retain any files that are not packaged in one of the
above-mentioned Emacs repos, though arguably any such files should be
submitted to those repos.

A good place to start with deciding what to remove from
emacs-goodies-el would be packages with many requests for updates,
e.g. markdown-mode.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers quantal-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el depends on:
ii  bash               4.2-5ubuntu1
ii  dpkg               1.16.7ubuntu6
ii  emacs24 [emacsen]  24.2+1-1ubuntu2
ii  install-info       4.13a.dfsg.1-10ubuntu2

Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el recommends:
ii  dict      1.12.0+dfsg-5
ii  perl-doc  5.14.2-13ubuntu0.2
ii  wget      1.13.4-3ubuntu1

emacs-goodies-el suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Hi Reuben;

emacs-goodies-el is now maintained by the debian emacsen-team, and I
would say your bug report essentially describes our current plans, with
the exception that since you filed it we've started packaging quite a
few packages from melpa and gnu-elpa in the "elpa-*" namespace.

d

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