Bastien <b...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Nicholas,
>
> thanks for your answer.
>
> Nicholas D Steeves <s...@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Thank you for the notification, and sorry for the unfortunate state of
>> Org mode in Debian 12 (bookworm). A variety of factors intersected to
>> generate this outcome, and I wish we, as a team, had been able to do
>> better.
>
> No problem at all. While I'm at it: any idea on how many persons are
> using the Debian Org package? I suspect there are less and less users,
> because Org comes with Emacs and is easily installable as an Emacs
> package, but perhaps I'm wrong.
>
In the end the state of org-mode in bookworm is fine: users get the
version from emacs as the separate elpa-org package is a dummy package.
It is hard to know what popcon numbers mean in absolute terms, but the
number of installs is overall trending upward:
https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=elpa-org&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
The question whether it is worth packaging org in Debian is essentially
the same as for any other package in GNU ELPA. Some users prefer a more
"upstream" approach as it generally gives newer software, while others
find value in the integration and testing provided by Debian.
