Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> writes: >> David Bremner wrote >> >> I (so-far) had the idea that "dpkg-dev", and "debian" could be >> upstream packages in e.g. melpa-stable. OTOH, "debian" is annoyingly >> generic, so that might have to change. > > If they are native packages, they should not be published to MELPA. > > I think they should probably be native packages.
Perhaps. There is this: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/emacs-goodies https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063750 If other (non-downstream) distros are going to have them, it's maybe better to have a real upstream to centralize bug reporting. In any case, they need an "elpa name" to e.g. go in the define-package form and the binary package name. What are the advantages of being native packages? I don't propose to have seperate upstream repos, only branches. d