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and subject line Bug#841109: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #841109,
regarding RM: prolog-el -- RoM; obsolete package
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Package: prolog-el
Version: 1.25-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
prolog-el webpage says:
> A variant of this very code now comes bundled with Emacs (23 and above). The
> bundled version includes extra features such as SMIE integration (which in
> turn handles correctly and completely Prolog's 0' construct). Therefore if
> you are using a newer Emacs you may be better off just using what comes
> bundled with it.
>
> This being said, some people consider this version superior in many ways. It
> is also the case that the new, bundled version is not available to older
> Emacsen, while this version works with any reasonably new version of Emacs
> and XEmacs. For these two reasons this page will continue to exist, and the
> code herein will continue to be maintained for the foreseeable future.
Since the current version in Debian, 1.25, was released by upstream (as far as
I know) in 2013, and there were no releases after that, seems that development
of prolog-el moved completely to GNU Emacs repository. Moreover since even
wheezy contains GNU Emacs 23, then prolog-el is not needed as a separate package
in Debian. I would say that existence of prolog-el misleads users, since GNU
Emacs has its own version of prolog-mode, which (probably) contains bug fixes
since 2013 and may be some new features (at least prolog-el website mentions
SMIE integration). May be it's time to remove the package from Debian?
With regards,
Lev Lamberov
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages prolog-el depends on:
ii emacs 46.1
ii emacs24 [emacsen] 24.5+1-7
prolog-el recommends no packages.
Versions of packages prolog-el suggests:
ii swi-prolog 7.2.3+dfsg-1+b1
-- no debconf information
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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:
prolog-el | 1.25-2 | source, all
------------------- Reason -------------------
RoM; obsolete package
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Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
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it). Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
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