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   Message 306 of 675   
   Andreas Tille to All   
   Bug#1118036: Conflicts Debian Emacsen te   
   15 Oct 25 14:00:02   
   
   XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist   
   From: tille@debian.org   
      
   Control: severity -1 normal   
   Control: retitle -1 RM: auto-install-el -- RoQA; Conflicts Debian Emacsen team   
   policy   
   Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org   
   Control: affects -1 + src:auto-install-el   
   Thanks.   
      
      
   Am Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 12:49:34AM -0700 schrieb Xiyue Deng:   
   >   
   > FYI this package is from a recipe from EmacsWiki, and I believe it was   
   > created before the current Emacsen team guideline starting discouraging   
   > EmacsWiki packages (see the "Addons packaging policy" section in team   
   > wiki[1]).   
   >   
   > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianEmacsenTeam   
      
   This policy explicitly states   
      
      This means that projects that only exist on "emacswiki.org" should not be   
   part of Debian.   
      
   So I hereby ask for removal of this package.   
      
   Kind regards and thank you for your work as ftpmaster   
       Andreas.   
      
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