Bug#594274: debian-policy: Don't track generated README documents in VCS
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- Subject: Bug#594274: debian-policy: Don't track generated README documents in VCS
- From: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:00:05 +1000
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- Reply-to: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>, 594274@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <20100831142321.GC2203__25843.3763673112$1283264845$gmane$org@yellowpig> (Bill Allombert's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:23:21 +0200")
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Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 03:50:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Bill, do you mind if we make Emacs a build requirement for Policy
> > for the *.org files that are in there right now? I think you were
> > the one who expressed concerns previously about the org files.
>
> emacs and org-mode I think.
> I do not care as long as all needed packages are listed in the
> Build-Depends field, […]
The versions of Emacs in Debian include Org mode. AFAIK, the ‘org-mode’
package is merely a more current version of Org mode than that included
with Emacs.
If that's true, then a dependency on the ‘emacs’ package alone should be
sufficient for rendering Org source files.
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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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