Re: RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency requirements

2010-07-07 Thread Agustin Martin
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 12:57:19PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > > > lisp stuff in a package whose main use is not Emacs should be used if > > > an emacsen package is installed and ignored otherwise. There is nothing > > > wrong > > > with that. Even if /var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors w

Re: RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency requirements

2010-07-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ian Jackson wrote: > Rob Browning writes ("Re: RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency > requirements"): > > If the package doesn't need to use any of the emacsen-common build > > infrastructure (doesn't need to byte-compile for each flavor, etc.), > > then it doesn't need to have any

Re: RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency requirements

2010-07-07 Thread Agustin Martin
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:46:57PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > > Rob Browning writes ("RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency > > requirements"): > >> After some investigation, it looks like we might be able to change > >> policy to just require add-on package

Re: RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency requirements

2010-07-07 Thread Agustin Martin
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:54:33PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Agustin Martin writes: > > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 11:51:06AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > >> Why should a package which happens to also ship some elisp need to > >> depend on any Emacs package at all ? What will go wrong if the

Re: RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency requirements

2010-07-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Rob Browning writes ("Re: RFC: relaxation of debian-emacs-policy dependency requirements"): > If the package doesn't need to use any of the emacsen-common build > infrastructure (doesn't need to byte-compile for each flavor, etc.), > then it doesn't need to have any emacsen-related dependencies --