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|    Message 308 of 695    |
|    David Bremner to Andreas Tille    |
|    Bug#1118036: Conflicts Debian Emacsen te    |
|    15 Oct 25 21:40:01    |
   
   XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist   
   From: david@tethera.net   
      
   Andreas Tille writes:   
      
   > 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   
      
   That policy applies to packages maintained by the team.   
   This package is not maintained by the team.   
      
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