Bug#496930: RFP: emacs-dvc -- Emacs front-end to distributed version control systems

[Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>]

Control: retitle -1 RFP: emacs-dvc -- Emacs front-end to distributed
version control systems

This package is more appropriately named emacs-dvc, especially now in 2021.

Gna! was shutdown in 2017 (see [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gna! )
so http://download.gna.org/dvc is no more.  Fortunately, it is archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20170307015429/http://download.gna.org/dvc/

The author's site should now be regarded as the canonical homepage of
Emacs-DVC: http://xsteve.at/prg/emacs_dvc/

Upstream author's Bazaar repository is still up.  It may be checked out with

    brz checkout http://bzr.xsteve.at/dvc

or, better yet, as Git is being used on salsa.debian.org:

    git clone bzr::http://bzr.xsteve.at/dvc

It was last updated on 2015-10-09.  debian/* is included upstream:

    This package was debianized by Matthieu Moy on
    Sun, 17 Oct 2004 17:15:25 +0200. Small additional changes were made by
    Milan Zamazal and Daniel Dehennin completely repackage it.

so it should make it easier for packaging for Debian a lot easier.

There is a newer and unrelated project called "Data Version Control"
at dvc.org which now has higher notability.  Taking the cue from Guix
which packages DVC.el as emacs-dvc (see
https://guix.gnu.org/es/packages/emacs-dvc-0.0.0-1.591/ ), I think
Debian should package it as emacs-dvc too.

I might actually adapt Daniel Dehennin's packaging and uplaod io
Debian in the not too distant future.  We'll see.  :-)

Cheers,
Anthony