Rob, sounds like an exciting release. Kindly provide a few surrounding points of context or discussion regarding this release. http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debian-emacs-policy http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emacsen-common.html
Best regards, Toby On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Rob Browning <r...@defaultvalue.org> wrote: > > I've finally released the major emacsen-common overhaul I've been > promising for a long time. > > These changes, which include substantial changes to debian-emacs-policy, > remove the requirement that (new-style) add-on packages depend on > emacsen in some way. In many cases, this should eliminate the need for > most, if not all, of the tiny foo-el packages. > > If everything works properly, emacsen support can now be added to any > package (with no additional dependencies), and it will be activated > automatically whenever a flavor of emacs is installed or removed. > > So for example, it should now be possible to safely move the > functionality of gettext-el into gettext itself (if desired). > > It was my intent to preserve backward compatibility, so existing > packages should just continue to work as they always have, but if you > want to remove the emacsen dependencies, you'll need to adjust the > relevant package(s) to follow the new requirements in > debian-emacs-policy. > > See current /usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz for the > details, and please let me know if you have any trouble. I wouldn't be > surprised if we need adjustments. > > Thanks > -- > Rob Browning > rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org > GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-emacsen-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878vgemqvo....@trouble.defaultvalue.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-emacsen-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canq7isz_w4ujx0rprnq+plf-jmcgfd7586roaxokfykujzv...@mail.gmail.com
