Hi I'm a big fan of this kind of Debian trivia. Thank you very much for this detailed information.
That said we can left this bug open and have a look again in a few years. Greetings Le lun. 15 sept. 2025 à 20:37, Agustin Martin <[email protected]> a écrit : > > 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
