Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages

2024-10-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 01 Oct 2024 at 11:11pm -07, Xiyue Deng wrote: > I wasn't planning on doing something as dramatic as getting rid of the > `emacs-goodies-el' binary package yet, so maybe still keeping it until > after Trixie? We may announce its deprecating in `news' once we have a > plan. We've bee

Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages

2024-10-01 Thread Xiyue Deng
Hi David, Sean, Sean Whitton writes: > Hello, > > On Tue 01 Oct 2024 at 07:43am -03, David Bremner wrote: > >> I think my original idea was to treat emacs-goodies-el as a transitional >> package and have it go away eventually. If other people think it's >> useful and want to maintain it, that's

Bug#1083081: emacs-goodies-el: Introduce a new emacs-editing-modes metapackage to recommend/suggest useful editing modes

2024-10-01 Thread Xiyue Deng
Hi Sean, Sean Whitton writes: > Hello, > > On Tue 01 Oct 2024 at 06:28pm +08, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I would probably install this. How about calling it emacs-major-modes >> though? Sounds good. Updated accordingly[1] (patch 2 attached). Though in this case we may include more

Bug#1083081: emacs-goodies-el: Introduce a new emacs-editing-modes metapackage to recommend/suggest useful editing modes

2024-10-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, I would probably install this. How about calling it emacs-major-modes though? -- Sean Whitton

Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages

2024-10-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 01 Oct 2024 at 07:43am -03, David Bremner wrote: > I think my original idea was to treat emacs-goodies-el as a transitional > package and have it go away eventually. If other people think it's > useful and want to maintain it, that's fine of course. In the long term > what is the re

Bug#1083081: emacs-goodies-el: Introduce a new emacs-editing-modes metapackage to recommend/suggest useful editing modes

2024-10-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Tue 01 Oct 2024 at 06:28pm +08, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > I would probably install this. How about calling it emacs-major-modes > though? We could even add it to Suggests: for emacs. -- Sean Whitton

Bug#1083081: emacs-goodies-el: Introduce a new emacs-editing-modes metapackage to recommend/suggest useful editing modes

2024-10-01 Thread Xiyue Deng
Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 42.5 Severity: wishlist Hi, I would like to propose adding a new metapackage to recommend/suggest useful editing modes (currently named "emacs-editing-modes"), such as programming modes, configuration file modes, etc. It would be great if Debian can provide a w

Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages

2024-10-01 Thread David Bremner
Xiyue Deng writes: > Package: emacs-goodies-el > Version: 42.5 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > emacs-goodies-el depends on a list of useful Emacs addons. While most > of them are useful, it is less flexible that a user would have to > install all of them even if some of the packages are not of

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Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > retitle 1083073 Use Recommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility > in choosing packages Bug #1083073 [emacs-goodies-el] emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Changed Bu