Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 36.3+nmu1 Severity: normal Dear Peter,
Thank you for maintaining emacs-goodies-el; It has proven to be invaluable for a variety of tasks. Sean Whitton and I have recently been discussing the challenge of breaking up emacs-goodies.el into many elpafied packages. I am filing this bug so there will be a site to coordinates efforts to this end. Is it something you're already working on, or something you wouldn't object to having the Debian Emacsen team help out with? How important is git history to you? While it is possible to script pruning and rewriting history for each new repository (consisting of the .el, documentation, patches, changelog, and copyright) this will be a lot of work! I'd also like to break up the process into a series of steps, so that other people can resume progress if the effort stalls, and possibly also break it up into no more than four sections (count of *.els / 4), so that the labour of any manual steps can be divided between multiple people. Finally, if there are any bugs in the script, doing it in multiple steps will provide checkpoints and a way to gauge progress. Please feel free to define this sequence, or ping me if I haven't submitted one by the first of June. Kind regards, Nicholas P.S. Do you know a way to automate the triaging of ~100 bugs against goodies, and to reassign them to their respective (future) elpafied packages?
