Nicholas D Steeves <nstee...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi! > > Sorry for the delay replying to this thread, I've had a busy week and > won't have time to work on dpkg-dev-el and debian-el until Tuesday the > 19th. Reply follows below. Please comment on at least four or five > points. > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 12:33:21PM -0300, David Bremner wrote: >> >> Hmm. Well, it wouldn't be my first choice, but I think it's not really >> the most important issue to figure out. For example, are we ready to >> drop xemacs support from dpkg-dev-el and debian-el? If not, then that's >> a problem. OTOH, I also don't want to block the transition to >> unversioned emacs. Or be sucked into the briarpatch of maintaining >> emacs-goodies-el. > > I've also been wondering about Debian's xemacs support for a year, and > the position I've formed (which Sean has confirmed) is that as a > general case packages should be transitioned to dh-elpa. Given the > specific case of unversioned emacs support as a team goal it seems > clear that xemacs support should be dropped at this time. Has there > yet been an official announcement to users that xemacs is depreciated > in Debian?
Well, it's a team goal, but the packages are not team packages. So it would be nice to have some feedback from Julian or Peter here. There has been no such announcement; I guess it would be up to either Rob as maintainer of emacsen-common, or the xemacs maintainer. d
