Debian Bug report logs - #912327
"Drop -el from binary package name"

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: elpa-devscripts: please change Recommends to elpa-dpkg-dev-el instead of dpkg-dev-el

Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:23:26 +0000

Package: elpa-devscripts
Version: 40.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi!

Thanks for all your work on these packages!

I notice that elpa-devscripts currently Recommends dpkg-dev-el rather
than elpa-dpkg-dev-el.  Please could you change this?

(Also, I notice that these are the only two elpa-* packages which end
with -el.  Wouldn't it make more sense to name them elpa-dpkg-dev and
elpa-debian?  To change it would need two transitional packages
elpa-dpkg-dev-el and elpa-debian-el which could be presumably be
dropped before the freeze, as these two packages only exist in
testing, or at least immediately after the release of buster.)

Best wishes,

   Julian

Message #20 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Bremner <[email protected]>

To: [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: there's a bit more to it

Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 08:58:18 -0300

I remember looking at this when I did the split, and there was one or
two complications to changing the "elpa package name". IIRC, info files
in other packages needed to be changed. I don't know if those issues
still exist; the info file for emacs-goodies-el should be gone by the
buster release.

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