Please remove emacs-extra and happycoders-emacs from lucid.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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emacs-extra (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
happycoders-emacs (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: emacs-extra
The short description for this package is "emacs configuration" but it's just one particular user's configuration, and it's not altogether clear why offering this to other Emacs users is beneficial. Judging from several bug reports for this package, users install it under the false impression that it is useful or even required for a full Emacs installation.
The long package description reads simply "very long description to put here" [sic!]
The file /etc/emacs/
The subdirectory /usr/share/
This file contains a random splattering of personal .emacs preferences, with spurious comments in French. It includes a custom-
It attempts to load /etc/emacs-
There is no documentation.
I'm wondering if it was a mistake to include this package in Universe in the first place.
What is the proper procedure for proposing the removal of this package from the Universe?
Changed in emacs-extra (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in happycoders-emacs (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Probably this package should be moved to the original uploaders PPA (see https:/ /help.launchpad .net/Packaging/ PPA for explanation), as it seems clearly unsuitable for the universe repo.
Who should we contact to get this done?