David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> writes: > Nicholas D Steeves <nstee...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Package: elpa-fountain-mode >> Severity: normal >> >> Fountain-mode is out of date. I have not imported the new series yet, >> because it drops support for exporting to PDF. Afterwriting looks >> like a viable replacement for this functionality. Afterwriting >> functionality exposed to Emacs should at least be equivalent to Atom's >> implementation: >> >> https://atom.io/packages/fountain > > Hi Nicholas; > > If PDF export is a dealbreaker for you maintaining the package, please > orphan it; if no-one picks it up and updates it we can remove it per > Paul's request. >
Shipping a newer version with missing support for print output was a functionality regression (within the context of the self-contained Debian archive) that is, in my opinion, in no way appropriate for Bullseye (Debian 11)--ditto for this year's Ubuntu LTS; It took me longer than expected to find my notes on this! Now that the two have been released, and we're beginning a new cycle, I agree that now is the time to ship a newer, more polished, yet with reduced functionality version. But first, I'm going to file an RFP for Wrap, a Golang alternative to Afterwriting that has a much more reasonable and manageable dependency tree, and which I believe is a better fit for Debian due to its support for non-English languages--it's been taking me far too long to get up to speed with Golang packaging. Sorry about that. I also need to apologise to Wrap's maintainer for missing that deadline :-$ Paul, as communicated previously, the deadline for completing that work was 2021-02-12 (https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html), and I wasn't able to learn Debian Golang packaging quickly enough. To give the ftpmasters time to review all the new dependencies would have pushed the deadline closer to 2021-01-12 or even 2020-12-12. Other than the RFP for Wrap, I'll update NEWS.Debian file to note the regression and document the RFP bugs, and then the new Fountain-mode release can be quickly prepared for upload. Best, Nicholas
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