X-Debbugs-CC: tak...@debian.or.jp Since this package hasn't been taken care of for at least 4 years (actually 9 years), I will submit the removal bug now.
Takaya: If you have any thoughts or doubts, please let me know *immediately*. -- Best Regards, Boyuan Yang On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 11:13:31 +0500 Lev Lamberov <dogs...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: anything-el > Severity: grave > > Dear Maintainer, > > the last upload of the package in question was in Nov 2014 (version > 1.287-2.1), which was a NMU upload, but the last maintainer's upload was > in Mar 2011 (version 1.287-2). Since then upstream renamed anything-el > [0] to helm and released 2.8.2 in Aug 2017 [1]. Moreover, since > anything-el was not maintained for a long time, helm was packaged > separately in Feb 2016 using new dh-elpa infrastructure, and currently > is team-maintained by pkg-emacsen [2]. > > The anything-el package is heavily outdated (as the indication in its > source code says it is tested only with Emacs 22/23, where there's Emacs > 25 in stretch, and Emacs 24 will be removed from the archive soon), > don't use the modern Emacs addons infrastructure. Since according to > popcon there are some (47) users of the package [3], it should become a > transitional dummy package, which should depend on elpa-helm, and after > some time should be removed from Debian. Alternative approach would be > to remove anything-el, and build transitional dummy package from helm > source package to allow migrations. > > Cheers! > Lev Lamberov > > [0] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Anything > > [1] https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm > > [2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/helm > > [3] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=anything-el > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: buster/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > >
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