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

2024-10-17 Thread Xiyue Deng
Sean Whitton writes: > Hello, > > Reusing the emacs-goodies-el source package just seemed convenient. > Making a separate source package is fine with me. Xiyue? > Ack. Let me make a new source package then. Is `emacs-editing-major-mode' good for the source package name? [ BTW, as I mentioned

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

2024-10-17 Thread Xiyue Deng
Nicholas D Steeves writes: > Please see my reply to #1083073. This betrays years of communications > to users about the future of src:emacs-goodies-el. Ack. May be it's good to have a new source package. Let's follow up there. -- Regards, Xiyue Deng signature.asc Description: PGP signatur

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

2024-10-17 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, Reusing the emacs-goodies-el source package just seemed convenient. Making a separate source package is fine with me. Xiyue? -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2024-10-17 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Thu 17 Oct 2024 at 03:20pm -07, Xiyue Deng wrote: > One thing I just thought to check: the popcon statistic suggests it's > still installed by over 1800 machines[1], so removing would probably > upset quite some users. Given this I'd be more inclined to keep this > for now and try to m

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

2024-10-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Please see my reply to #1083073. This betrays years of communications to users about the future of src:emacs-goodies-el. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2024-10-17 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
You're right about now being the time to move forward on this project, since it requires a trip through NEW :) Xiyue Deng writes: > 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 eve

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

2024-10-17 Thread Xiyue Deng
Sean Whitton writes: > 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' o

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

2024-10-17 Thread Xiyue Deng
Sean Whitton writes: > control: tag -1 + pending > > Hello, > > On Wed 16 Oct 2024 at 10:45pm -07, Xiyue Deng wrote: > >> Maybe calling it emacs-editing-major-modes? I have removed the tooling >> major modes[1] in the new patch. PTAL. > > LGTM, let me know when you want me to sponsor an upload t