Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > - `emacs-goodies-extra-el' currently holds elisp packages that depend on > > other Debian packages. It only contains: > > > > dict.el: wrapper around the 'dict' command. > > There's a package for that? I'd been using a badly done > home-grown version of it. > > It might be more easily found if it were named `dict-el'.
No, it's current the only file in `emacs-goodies-extra-el'. > > and depends on `dict'. I will be adding `newsticker' soon, which > > depends on `wget'. > > > > I'd like to merge these files into `emacs-goodies-el' and move the > > `Depends' to `Recommends'. That would kill off one small package that is > > often overlooked by users. > > Sounds reasonable, I guess. Good, thanks. > > - Ben Pfaff said he's willing to kill off his debview package and let me > > merge deb-view.el into emacs-goodies-el, which also contains: > > > > apt-sources.el: major mode for editing Debian sources.list files; > > apt-utils.el: interface to APT (Debian package management); > > > > In a similar Debian theme, the package `debbugs-el' contains: > > > > debian-bug.el, an Emacs command to submit a bug report. > > gnus-BTS.el, an enhancement to Gnus to provide buttons on bug > > numbers seen in Debian-related messages. > > > > Perhaps I should kill the `debbugs-el' package and create a `debian-el' > > package for Debian user tools to hold the five files? > > That sounds like a reasonable approach to me. I'm on a roll. > > It could be argued that `debian-changelog-mode.el' is also useful for > > Debian users because it highlights bugs and lets users click on them. > > But perhaps there should be a diminished user mode without the editing > > commands? > > Wouldn't turning on read-only mode in the buffer have the same > effect? Yes and no. I think a diminished debian-changelog-mode that only has read-only features (such a bug fetching) would be less overwhelming for users. I don't know maybe not. Should `debian-changelog-mode' be moved to a user package? Or stay in dpkg-dev-el ? Thanks, Peter
