[please keep me CC'd] Hello,
The intersection of people who know how to make Debian packages and
people who use Emacs Lisp addon packages is significantly larger than
the current active membership of the Emacs Lisp addon packaging team.
Since our tools have improved a lot lately, I'd like to post a call for
participation to the next edition of DPN.
Suggested text:
With the advent of GNU Emacs's native package manager, package.el,
there has been renewed interest in writing useful Emacs Lisp addons.
Unfortunately, both package.el itself[1] and the infrastructure that
has grown up around it[2] leave a lot to be desired when it comes to
quality assurance and security.
Over the past year or so the pkg-emacsen team have been developing
tools to convert package.el packages to Debian packages, and it is
now quite easy to create new ones. We'd like to see more Emacs
users who know at least the basics of creating Debian packages join
our team. To get started:
1. join #debian-emacs
2. apt-get install dh-make-elpa/experimental
3. man dh-make-elpa # to view a quick start guide
[1] https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2015/11/editor-malware.html
[2] https://github.com/melpa/melpa/issues/2342
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Sean Whitton
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