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Control: retitle -1 ITP: elpa-markdown-toc -- Generate a TOC in markdown file 
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Hi Antoine,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 09:44:19AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On 2018-09-17 22:40:10, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> >
> > Re: a couple of markdown-toc bugs:
> >
> > https://github.com/ardumont/markdown-toc/issues/29
> >   * Solve in Debian with a hard depends on >= markdown-mode 2.2?
> >   * You mentioned markdown-mode 2.1 is bad, 20161222.1416 is good,
> >     and 2.2 is from 20170526, thus 2.2 should be good.
> >   * possibly fixed in markdown-toc?
> >
> > https://github.com/ardumont/markdown-toc/issues/15
> >   * "Don't assume that a document has an h1"
> >   * How serious is this one?  Seems like it could be annoying.
> >
> > https://github.com/ardumont/markdown-toc/issues/35
> >   * "Lines starting with # in code sections are treated as headings"
> >   * I imagine this one will frustrate many users.
> 
> I'm not sure how that's relevant to this RFP. Sure, like any other
> software, markdown-toc has bugs. :) Those are not critical and the thing
> generally works in my use cases. I think it can be packaged as is.

Ok, will do!  Yes, all software has bugs...when considering
maintaining a pkg I ask myself "is this something will have to fix,
and will a lot of people be unhappy if I don't?" vs "I've got a
year's old back queue of stuff that's important to me".  Thinking
optimistically, maybe a Debian user will submit a patch for #15 and
#35? ;-)

> > By the way, if you'd like I'd be happy to give you an intro on dh-elpa
> > packaging.  With the exception of a couple of autopkgtest on LXC
> > workarounds it's easy stuff--the trickiest bit is identifying why an
> > upstream self-test doesn't work on buildd.  Also, we're working on
> > improving dh-elpa's documentation, so alternatively it would be nice
> > to hear about your experiences with it--and than make improvements if
> > necessary!  dh_elpa(1), dh_elpa_test(1), dh-make-elpa(1), plus 
> 
> I'm sure you guys did a great job and it's nice to see so many ELPA
> packages being added into Debian. Unfortunately, I don't have much time
> to handle the packaging myself so if you do not mind I'll stay on this
> side of the packaging for now. :) If I do find the time, you'll be the
> first to know (here) that I can work on a package of course.

Cool :-)

Cheers,
Nicholas

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