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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