bug#39663: [External] : bug#39663: 27.1; ebnf2ps bugs

["Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>]

1 sep. 2021 kl. 09.53 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> We've only moved one package from Emacs to ELPA so far, and that was not
> well received, so I don't think we should repeat that experiment.  (At
> least not until we've got the ELPA-bunding stuff actually implemented.)

Very well, I will not pursue the matter further. (What I write below is not an attempt to contradict that claim.)

I still think that the likely small user base of ebnf2ps would make negative reactions unlikely -- we have been talking about moving packages to ELPA for along time, and if we can't do it with this package then when?

> (And in general, I think moving things to ELPA generally only makes
> sense if it's a package that somebody wants to work on a lot outside of
> the Emacs release schedule -- not because it's an outdated package.)

Not sure I agree with that principle -- we'd have to be awfully careful with what we allow in Emacs then, because once in, it can never be removed, even if it didn't really belong in the tree in the first place. Shouldn't we be more forgiving of the past mistakes of others (and of our own)?

In any case this bug can be closed as far as I'm concerned -- once again, thanks for the help.