Your message dated Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:00:10 +0000 with message-id <e1eo5ec-0008tp...@fasolo.debian.org> and subject line Bug#886161: fixed in auto-complete-el 1.5.1-0.1 has caused the Debian Bug report #886161, regarding auto-complete-el: extremely outdated, blocks packaging of new Emacs packages to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: auto-complete-el Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, Debian ships auto-complete-el package version 1.3.1. It was firstly uploaded in July 6th, 2010. The package was not anyway significantly updated for more than 7 years. Since 2010 upstream moved development of auto-complete to GitHub [0] and released three new versions (the latest version for now is 1.5.1, released on March 30th, 2016). Moreover two of these versions (1.4.0 and 1.5.0) contained significant changes, that break backwards compatibility with 1.3.0 branch. Most of the Emacs packages which depend on auto-complete and are available on MELPA require auto-complete version >1.4.0. It makes auto-complete in Debian completely useless, it may also introduce conflicts and unexpected behavior on the systems with auto-complete installed from the Debian archive together with auto-complete installed from, say, MELPA. Having outdated version of auto-complete in Debian makes integration of new Emacs packages (which depend on auto-complete) impossible or at least troublesome. The most notable examples are jedi [1], ein [2], and spacemacs [3], which was requested to be packaged for Debian. Since the mentioned Emacs packages depend on auto-complete version >1.4.0, having outdated auto-complete package in Debian blocks the whole process of their integration. Moreover auto-complete package in Debian uses the obsolete installation mechanisms, where better mechanisms are available with the help of dh_elpa and dh_elpa_test [4]. The package uses deprecated debhelper compat version [5]; has outdated (and non-working) watch file [6]; depends on Emacs versions, which are unavailable anymore in Debian versions (emacs22, emacs23) [7], which previously caused problems with the removal of these versions of Emacs (see referenced bugreport). The version of auto-complete in the Debian archive may work for some outdated and/or obsolete code (Emacs configurations and Emacs packages), but not for the new and modern one. I have not went through the commit history of the auto-complete upstream, but notably that GitHub Issues contains information on more than 200 closed issues (remember, that migration to GitHub happend after the upload of auto-complete 1.3.1 to the Debian archive). Even in the case that only 25% of these issues were real bugs we have about 50 bugs non-fixed in the Debian package. Which is a grave, so to speak. With regards, Lev Lamberov [0] https://github.com/auto-complete/auto-complete/ [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829589 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695278 [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828154 [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872616 [5] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=873389 [6] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872614 [7] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689312 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages auto-complete-el depends on: ii emacs 47.0 auto-complete-el recommends no packages. auto-complete-el suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: auto-complete-el Source-Version: 1.5.1-0.1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of auto-complete-el, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 886...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Hilko Bengen <ben...@debian.org> (supplier of updated auto-complete-el package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 23:53:45 +0100 Source: auto-complete-el Binary: elpa-auto-complete auto-complete-el Architecture: source all Version: 1.5.1-0.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Hilko Bengen <ben...@debian.org> Changed-By: Hilko Bengen <ben...@debian.org> Description: auto-complete-el - transitional package for elpa-auto-complete elpa-auto-complete - intelligent auto-completion extension for GNU Emacs Closes: 689312 746982 854002 872612 872614 872616 873389 886161 Changes: auto-complete-el (1.5.1-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload * Update Homepage field and debian/watch (Closes: #872614) * New upstream version 1.5.1 (Closes: #886161, #872612) * Update debian/copyright, convert to copyright-format 1.0 * Modernize package - Switch to elpa (Closes: #872616, #746982, #689312) - Install dict/*-mode files to source (Closes: #854002) - Bump Standards-Version, Debhelper compat level (Closes: #873389) - Build HTML documentation using pandoc - Remove patch - Remove obsolete debian/README.* Checksums-Sha1: d3d6815c419c7dcb5d91129d0db4b8680e1610a8 1904 auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1.dsc f149c8ea7d5fbea4f8a673ed204d663105aa14f8 196709 auto-complete-el_1.5.1.orig.tar.gz b8ba6248445a28df63c56115a36dd2a4c1c73f6b 2304 auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1.debian.tar.xz 28313e63b55ff018c264d1d4577ce02d540c45e4 3652 auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1_all.deb 44ddda8acd0686b0658fe2db81519202a108d5d1 8037 auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1_amd64.buildinfo 31b90ad383a133cb54b4db0461682c20cca2357f 165816 elpa-auto-complete_1.5.1-0.1_all.deb Checksums-Sha256: ced70f76b897bf5370cdc7dd3f4435461b2170ee2e5c9beebb6911d8308fa2be 1904 auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1.dsc 1bfb4351c3e49681a875dab937c25b6b38e4bf8a8cd64bcba1954300242578cb 196709 auto-complete-el_1.5.1.orig.tar.gz d22db25a2b30144aec18ccb083e4d43f4fb6121673a64f02b0843ebe7e55ced1 2304 auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1.debian.tar.xz f802791afc616bd66b966f41028684dac179a7da361f9bfa4dfe9e8d09bbcd89 3652 auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1_all.deb edb3867f115081cbd5a3a3a77b845efcafa36b4058b3654ffc7842100a483877 8037 auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1_amd64.buildinfo d0401bdde41ece5024c673ff92598040c346a0f29906d04eb59da7ce290bac05 165816 elpa-auto-complete_1.5.1-0.1_all.deb Files: 5d9b96d6fb83cc8f66bdc89322091e86 1904 lisp optional auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1.dsc a270e5776847618a78decfc99e5b98a7 196709 lisp optional auto-complete-el_1.5.1.orig.tar.gz 1bcc286ac1440a60d771be42167b84e7 2304 lisp optional auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1.debian.tar.xz d9556cdd53980102fc9576d2dbc85c8b 3652 oldlibs optional auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1_all.deb 6e82ddbd99b6f06722007a7500bb4673 8037 lisp optional auto-complete-el_1.5.1-0.1_amd64.buildinfo dfaf557e88eabcef7a000bd68a9ae8a5 165816 lisp optional elpa-auto-complete_1.5.1-0.1_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEErnMQVUQqHZbPTUx4dbcQY1whOn4FAlqLCdkACgkQdbcQY1wh On47iw//Rl2Fzi7VWShjWGaB3Z3YgmfpGu9vB7dBfenZibz+v7az/lk6OuHWabAf YuRBjmh6jW9VfKgmcplSv69kmocE5RNJG5WvvuterNl55zFDNpAsCx6BDMSkYlZ2 It1aucwq4XSbcRCWJQKjy96tJE7h+1wMsPOZzgkAibtkd0bMNhtwXQSZ+QF7FtjP v2aTYHfqDECHDH05SqVcch/r9Zf6UV2piMnFy/bLrjFiq6aB7FmyCzBGxoTBDZYk ybw7azNiMUKyw+dvagFHrGc95HUDEO/BJJfiPhP/rPqD8PB35YsQvF+9+6TznjEz WCSZuYOEk+BF6G3dBMehj5BtBRr6t7OzPaNUITc+yXkJ47W8mGBHR+KHJjTMREyI nirm2J96YIdA493qekMRpiSKsoJcF+p6dVhEgPSFwJo5TzYEg+9dAFqVDI/Fxw4v 07VDiJKRPC7Ob/tY/89wXYe/1COUgD8fCwE86b6KYV3p5rEcoOcaZccO+Es7sF9q /2xAl2qMMGM4OU1kIqh3/6Xq35B805boNOJo0tytWs2JVo15PKqgw7+UOJb45Gma QejL8HsvDwqyQhs/8KHzOuJRbKbNtYcSHDaO/9n+1uiWCbOMK0OKHksldNXgYm01 Y4870qTJDvhAc+os+BMYTx5w+Gxvh3lDlDZIUROrtxRSH4WAcJo= =vcbI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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