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
