Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - `emacs-goodies-extra-el' currently holds elisp packages that depend on > other Debian packages. It only contains: > > dict.el: wrapper around the 'dict' command.
There's a package for that? I'd been using a badly done home-grown version of it. It might be more easily found if it were named `dict-el'. > and depends on `dict'. I will be adding `newsticker' soon, which > depends on `wget'. > > I'd like to merge these files into `emacs-goodies-el' and move the > `Depends' to `Recommends'. That would kill off one small package that is > often overlooked by users. Sounds reasonable, I guess. > - Ben Pfaff said he's willing to kill off his debview package and let me > merge deb-view.el into emacs-goodies-el, which also contains: > > apt-sources.el: major mode for editing Debian sources.list files; > apt-utils.el: interface to APT (Debian package management); > > In a similar Debian theme, the package `debbugs-el' contains: > > debian-bug.el, an Emacs command to submit a bug report. > gnus-BTS.el, an enhancement to Gnus to provide buttons on bug > numbers seen in Debian-related messages. > > Perhaps I should kill the `debbugs-el' package and create a `debian-el' > package for Debian user tools to hold the five files? That sounds like a reasonable approach to me. > It could be argued that `debian-changelog-mode.el' is also useful for > Debian users because it highlights bugs and lets users click on them. > But perhaps there should be a diminished user mode without the editing > commands? Wouldn't turning on read-only mode in the buffer have the same effect? -- "A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who cant [sic] program state machines." --Alan Cox
