Nicholas D Steeves <nstee...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello! > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 07:55:41PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> There are several dependencies/recommendations in emacs-goodies-el which >> look questionable to me. >> >> - elpa-debian-el, elpa-dpkg-dev-el, elpa-devscripts: >> Those packages are the successors of debian-el, dpkg-dev-el and >> devscripts-el which used to be built from the emacs-goodies-el source >> package. But the emacs-goodies-el _binary_ package in Stretch did not >> depend on those, so why have these dependencies be introduced now? > > I'm not sure. David, 'git blame' says you're the one to ask. Maybe > these could be downgraded to suggests in the next release?
I think they can be omitted entirely. > > My apologies for upgrading them to hard Depends. You're absolutely
