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Bug#692060: remove shell-command.el from emacs-goodies-el



Hi,

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 07:13:00PM +0800, David Bremner wrote:
> 
> Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net> writes:
> >
> > For MY use case I don't even need all that because I can simply replace
> >   (shell-command-make-prompt-string " [%w]%$ " default-directory)
> > with
> >   (format " [%s]$ " (directory-file-name (abbreviate-file-name
> >                                           default-directory)))
> > I don't think anything here is worth maintaining. If this goes away,
> > should we think about how to not blow up peoples' existing usages?
> 
> Perhaps a wiki page with config snippet suggestions?
> Or more documentation in emacs-goodies-el README.Debian

I'm planning to upload another revision of emacs-goodies-el 31 July,
before 11pm EST.  It sounds like shell-command-el could be removed at
that time, but I'll wait to hear back from Dimo, or two weeks,
whichever is shortest.

Dima, I definitely want to do all that I reasonably can to help this
transition go smoothly.  Do I have your permission to add your fix to
README.Debian?  Also, would you like me to include your email address
when I give you credit?  Copyright assignment for everything in
debian/* goes to Roland Mas, Peter S Galbraith, and Julian Gilbey, who
put a tonne or work into this package.  © GPL-2+

David, additionally, do you think it would lower the barrier of entry
for submitting snippet suggestions by additionally having a wiki page,
and adding a NEWS entry that links to it.  Oh, and mentioning that the
snippets would then be manually synced from the wiki to README.Debian.
1) provides solutions for transitioning from package we're not
particularly familiar with by the people who know best  2) it seems
like a nice way to let people thank Roland, Peter, and Julian for
their years of work, no? :-)  Yes, I'm volunteering to sync the wiki
for minor point releases at least once a month until the freeze.

I'd also like to say something in NEWS about how a dropped package can
be reintroduced to the archive if someone becomes the upstream
maintainer for it.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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