Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 42.5 Severity: wishlist Hi,
emacs-goodies-el depends on a list of useful Emacs addons. While most of them are useful, it is less flexible that a user would have to install all of them even if some of the packages are not of interest. Given that APT supports Recommends, I would like propose that emacs-goodies-el to use Recommends instead of Depends for those packages, so that a user can choose to leave certain package uninstalled while still benefits from other packages that this meta package provides. This is implemented in a MR[1], and the patch is attached. PTAL. TIA! (Note that I have commit access to the repo so you can leave the merging to me once you LGTM the patches.) -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-25-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled [1] https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/emacs-goodies-el/-/merge_requests/2 -- Xiyue Deng
>From 4f61a5b7ee5f14e14523b05c31e1de8673f72568 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiyue Deng <manp...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:06:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Move packages in Depends to Recommends * This gives some flexibility for users that don't want certain packages in the list. * This may also lower the threshold of introducing new packages to goodies as users have more flexibility to choose to install or not. * Update the package description accordingly. --- debian/control | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 1d3f97f..2a45f03 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -14,29 +14,30 @@ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/emacs-goodies-el.git Package: emacs-goodies-el Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} - , elpa-browse-kill-ring - , elpa-diminish - , elpa-htmlize - , elpa-markdown-mode - , elpa-csv-mode - , elpa-graphviz-dot-mode - , elpa-apache-mode - , elpa-bm - , elpa-boxquote - , elpa-session - , elpa-pod-mode - , elpa-tabbar - , elpa-eproject - , elpa-initsplit - , elpa-bar-cursor - , elpa-mutt-alias - , elpa-folding - , elpa-muttrc-mode -Recommends: elpa-color-theme-modern +Recommends: + elpa-browse-kill-ring, + elpa-diminish, + elpa-htmlize, + elpa-markdown-mode, + elpa-csv-mode, + elpa-graphviz-dot-mode, + elpa-apache-mode, + elpa-bm, + elpa-boxquote, + elpa-session, + elpa-pod-mode, + elpa-tabbar, + elpa-eproject, + elpa-initsplit, + elpa-bar-cursor, + elpa-mutt-alias, + elpa-folding, + elpa-muttrc-mode, + elpa-color-theme-modern, Replaces: emacs-goodies-extra-el Provides: emacs-goodies-extra-el Description: Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs - This is a now a metapackage that installs the elpa-* packages + This is a now a metapackage that recommends the elpa-* packages corresponding to some of the previously bundled add-ons. . See /usr/share/doc/emacs-goodies-el/README.Debian.gz for a discussion -- 2.45.2
