Hello, On Sun 27 Jul 2025 at 11:44am -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> Hi Sean, > > Thanks for your comments! > > Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hello Xiyue, >> >> Thanks. A few comments: >> >> - how about using a sexp rather than JSON, since we are Lispers around >> here? :) > > My intention is for this to be simple and human readable, so a > one-line-per-entry kind of format that is more universally accessible > would be ideal, which is why I chose JSON. Sexp is of course native to > Lisp environments, but as we now have a fast JSON parser built-in to > Emacs it's not that bad if we want to use this info in Elisp :) Okay. >> - how about installing the file somewhere? might be useful for other >> things to reference the information > > This information is provided by apt-cache/dpkg already for external > tools, so I don't think providing another separate source would help > more. As mentioned in the previous mail, this is currently intended to > be useful for maintainers for keep tracking, so storing in the source > packaging and accessible through Salsa should be good enough for now. > >> - let's use the debian/emacs-nox/emacs again, so that there is no chance >> the information goes out-of-sync. > > See above. > >> [...] > > Now admittedly, this is more like a design-for-future thing, so it's > possible that this turns out to be not really useful. I'm OK if we want > to keep things simple for now and revisit this when there is an actual > need to add this info. Okay. Let's leave this bug open, then. -- Sean Whitton
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