Conflicts Debian Emacsen team policy thus asking for removal (Was: Bug#1118036: auto-install-el: Do we need auto-install-el in Debian)

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 RM: auto-install-el -- RoQA; Conflicts Debian Emacsen team policy
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:auto-install-el
Thanks.


Am Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 12:49:34AM -0700 schrieb Xiyue Deng:
> 
> FYI this package is from a recipe from EmacsWiki, and I believe it was
> created before the current Emacsen team guideline starting discouraging
> EmacsWiki packages (see the "Addons packaging policy" section in team
> wiki[1]).
> 
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianEmacsenTeam

This policy explicitly states

   This means that projects that only exist on "emacswiki.org" should not be part of Debian.

So I hereby ask for removal of this package.

Kind regards and thank you for your work as ftpmaster
    Andreas.

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