Bug#753999: debian-policy: please switch to emacs24
On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 10:59:40AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Hello Gabriele,
> > emacs24 has 50% more dependencies than emacs23, thus this is not very
> > attractive.
>
> > Personnaly I would rather convert the two remaining .org files to SGML
> > so we do not need to build-depend on emacs at all.
> > But other policy maintainer probably disagree.
>
> Personally, I have no particular attachment to using org-mode to maintain
> that documentation. I think both of those documents are in the wiki; I
> don't recall whether we moved them there from the package or the other way
> around. Having them in some form of SGML would be fine with me.
>
> > Maybe we could use emacs24-nox|emacs24 instead ?
>
> Yes, if we keep them, this would be a good idea. No need to install all
> the X stuff during the build.
Done, without prejudice of rewriting README and Process in SGML later.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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