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As summarized in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802488 the programming-language sections are a mess. It's not clear why the user cares about the implimentation language when looking for a package, so encouraging maintainers to move packages from sections that relate to the use of a package (e.g. mail) to one based on the implimentation language (e.g. lisp), is actively destructive (albeit in a minor way). The specific case that's annoying me is the 'elpa-*' -> section lisp mapping added in c85f00e3. There's an argument that all emacs extensions belong in section "editors" (where i believe the vim extensions are). Or, if you think emacs as more of an application platform, then emacs based mail-readers belong with other mail readers, emacs based irc-clients belong with other irc clients, and so on. Even if we care about implimentation language (or more defensibly, grouping extensions together) forcing all elpa-* into section lisp doesn't help anything; the package name already carries more information than the section. - -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.29.1-6 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.4 ii file 1:5.32-1 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-4 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.39-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.4 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-7 ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.1-3 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.72-2 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2+b2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.26.1-3 ii t1utils 1.41-1 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.4 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.47-1 - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQGzBAEBCAAdFiEE3VS2dnyDRXKVCQCp8gKXHaSnniwFAlopP28ACgkQ8gKXHaSn nizzKAv/QGmFPyfIvCB5bJVOQyLj0qhaotCkGoZBapBEfXzQEYKvjvEDhEI+ANs2 xZeAXeJ+NWBAaPMQy8YvmHPS0kCUypXDCztd88L1eujm1II+NwnEBm2z/5UGZ5qZ ZSHCsl1xbmmaGI0FN+O5D+TsDDcxs+iw2Kd0R3esakUzAkjYiUzMZIJfwiq78oL6 OtDIpT5U8uJJkzQo4M/UaETFUftqpzIu/68BRT1/nQpsQhtNuYJF3QMbmrAAl5ns f3w1VMWuz+gExCZkUWfojMUyZxBNLJwldiDX2tk+WPYxgluvf0A23TJiYnjX26+S W8xkZPilJS6MsUe27iROvK19kv1PtfQzXjRTwGjQ+pH2xGKdfV14PwTpugx4dt2B /6rBIfBcvJV3r6OvGsWmbex2ZNA76LvG5WS6cBL3BycSLfNHLHn1F9TAS1jmnK9E 5SffMYmJtUKFt8HadlWXtpEIRlmH1m+n7yRWMWwQxtCKgz8LxWekbKljrIDYvtL0 /h5Dqd29 =MtWx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
