Hi Sean, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes: > Hello, > > On Thu 28 Aug 2025 at 06:07pm -07, Xiyue Deng wrote: > >> Specifically for compat-el, I don't think it's useful in Debian anymore. > > This makes sense to me, but do we know why it was ever useful? It was useful before we had the breaks/replaces/provides for built-in packages: when a package explicitly specifies `compat' in `Package-Requires', dh-elpa will generate an explicit dependency on elpa-compat. Well, the explicit dependency is still there, but now we have Emacs providing that so it's not needed anymore. > > I guess it's only useful when the version of Emacs in Debian is a major > version behind upstream? Which is generally only a short lived > situation? Mostly yes. Maybe also for minor revision, but now we are at Emacs 30.2 but compat is still at 30.1.0.1. But I agree removing compat-el too soon may cause unnecessary work, e.g. NEW queue, etc. I guess maybe we can just keep this bug open and keep compat-el out of Forky for now, and see how it will progress with future Emacs releases. > > -- > Sean Whitton -- Regards, Xiyue Deng
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