Dear Mark, For the context of this bug please consult: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=899221
Thank you for maintaining XEmacs. A couple of professors during my undergrad were die-hard fans, and whenever I convert a package to dh-elpa I worry if it will be disruptive to one of them or if they've all since switched to GNU Emacs. As part of investigating issues related to the (increasingly near) future elpafication of src:emacs-goodies-el, I've discovered the package seems to contain some libraries that IIRC are now be builtin to GNU Emacs (eg: color-theme-library.el). Because the resulting dh-elpa-created packages will be incompatible with XEmacs, it occurred to me that you might want to insure convenient access to the libraries your users are accustomed to. The easiest course of action seems like it would be to provide NEWS at the time of emacs-goodies-el upgrade, to warn XEmacs users of the change... It might also be nice to provide an XEmacs package that contains the emacs-goodies-el libraries that are now part of GNU Emacs, but that's very much an "extra work" thing. Are you interested in it? At any rate, this email has grown too long. I just wanted to reach out and let you know I'm not trying to subvert the established XEmacs userbase and request comment on an issue that will soon emerge. Sincerely, Nicholas
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