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Re: Bug#1020192: Remove cycle-quotes from Debian?



Hello,

On Fri 24 Feb 2023 at 07:51AM -04, David Bremner wrote:

> Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Agreed.  I'm thinking about filing an RM bug against cycle-quotes; its
>> last release happened 4 years ago (although there are some non-useful
>> new commits on https://github.com/emacsmirror/cycle-quotes), it fails to
>> build with Emacs 28, has been blocked for 790 days, and doesn't have any
>> reverse-dependencies.
>>
>
> I would say that compared to some contexts, 4 years is not that long for
> an emacs package to be static. On the other hand, cycle-quotes is not in
> melpa, and it has pretty low popcon numbers, so it isn't hugely popular.

It's in GNU ELPA.

The fix for compatibility with recent Emacs is likely trivial.

> I guess I would be inclined to just let it get removed
> semi-automatically when the release team notices it has been out of
> testing for a while.

I think that we should leave it so that if someone wants it later, they
don't have to go through NEW.  It is doing no harm.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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