From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Future role of ELPA Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:37:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a8n20y7x.fsf@gmx.de> <87k2m60y08.fsf@mbork.pl> <871t8d26zp.fsf@gmx.de> <8760xpce7i.fsf@xsteve.at> <87vb5paxlp.fsf_-_@xsteve.at> <87h9h8bi9x.fsf@xsteve.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456097850 24383 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2016 23:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 22 00:37:21 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aXdZ3-00014G-DM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:37:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45015 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXdZ2-0002S2-Vw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:37:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50562) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXdYz-0002Of-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:37:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXdYy-00022i-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:37:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXdYu-00021M-HW; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:37:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aXdYt-0004GB-PE; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:37:11 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Sun, 21 Feb 2016 10:05:41 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200406 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] If we are going to offer our own .deb packages of Emacs, that doesn't mean we have to follow all of Debian's policies. In general, we should follow our own policies when they disagree with Debian's. If you see a practical reason to depart from that, please discuss it with me. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.