Bug#227738: ftp.debian.org: Please remove eshell and w3-el from unstable

[Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>]

Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:

> * James Troup <james@nocrew.org> [2004-01-14 21:20]:
>> reassign 227738 qa.debian.org
>> > These packages depend on emacs20 and are designed to work only with emacs20.
>> > emacs20 has just been removed.
>> >
>> > The functionality of these packages is available in other packages for emacs21
>> > (as part of emacs21 in the case of eshell, as the w2-el-e21 package in the
>> > case of w3-el).
>
> Ben, I guess now that emacs20 has been removed, w3-el (building the
> *20 packages) can be removed as well?

Yes.  That applies only to the w3-el source package and its
binaries though.  There is also the w3-el-e21 source package and
its binaries, which should not be removed.
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