On Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 12:03:10PM +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> Package: dictionaries-common
> Version: 1.30.10
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make is remnant of
> the old '1.0' source format that should
> be removed some day.
>
> dictionaries-common has switched to
> the new '3.0 (quilt)' like the 99+%
> other packages.
Hi, Alexandre,
This is a strange package, with '3.0 (native)' format (not 3.0 (quilt)
format), but using quilt patches. The reason for this is to help submitting
upstream some Debian local changes to included copies of ispell.el and
flyspell.el (last version which was mostly compatible for Emacs and XEmacs).
These changes are currently only for XEmacs, which apparently
has no active official maintainer (and includes some things that were XEmacs
specific), so I prefer to have working {ispell,flyspell}.el for XEmacs
integrated with Debian the way it is.
During some time I used the FSF Emacs part to add and test changes to be
submitted to Emacs upstream, but that is no longer needed since all
relevant changes are included and it is now used directly without Debian
changes (and using some new features not compatible with XEmacs). I would
happily remove all that XEmacs stuff if a new XEmacs is ever released with
all required changes included,
This is why I think the quilt dependency cannot be dropped at this stage.
Regarding an upgrade to use dh_ sequencer, it is definitely not in my
priority list, at least unless XEmacs diffs and related machinery can be
dropped.
Thanks for your feedback.
Regards,
--
Agustin
