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25.0.50; Move landmark.el to elpa

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From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.0.50; Move landmark.el to elpa
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:42:38 +0200

A bit of searching shows that landmark.el is not used much (if at all),
and in fact causes confusion :
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-04/msg00294.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-06/msg00592.html

In that thread, Stefan suggests to move landmark.el to GNU elpa. I want
to give this a try. What's the procedure ?

My current plan is :
- move the file to lisp/obsolete/,
- add a note to lisp/obsolete/landmark.el that it moved to GNU Elpa
  (like what was done for crisp.el)
- mention these changes in ChangeLog and NEWS
- copy the file to elpa.git, as packages/landmark/landmark.el
- add a Maintainer header (who should that be ? the original author ?)
and that's about it.

Opinions and advices very welcome.

Message #8 received at 20898 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>
Cc: 20898 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20898: 25.0.50; Move landmark.el to elpa
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:10:47 -0400

Nicolas Richard wrote:

> My current plan is :
> - move the file to lisp/obsolete/,
> - add a note to lisp/obsolete/landmark.el that it moved to GNU Elpa
>   (like what was done for crisp.el)
> - mention these changes in ChangeLog and NEWS
> - copy the file to elpa.git, as packages/landmark/landmark.el

Sounds good, thank you.

> - add a Maintainer header (who should that be ? the original author ?)

I think the honest answer is that it has no maintainer.
I'd either leave it with no Maintainer header (which by convention means
the author), or add one that says help wanted.

Message #13 received at 20898-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20898-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20898: 25.0.50; Move landmark.el to elpa
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 12:43:39 +0200

Finally marking as done. Sorry for the long delay.

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:
> Nicolas Richard wrote:
>> - add a Maintainer header (who should that be ? the original author ?)
> I think the honest answer is that it has no maintainer.
> I'd either leave it with no Maintainer header (which by convention means
> the author), or add one that says help wanted.

Since the requirement for ELPA is to have such a header, I went for the
second option.

Nicolas.

Message #16 received at 20898 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
To: 20898 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#20898: 25.0.50; Move landmark.el to elpa
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 08:01:45 +0800

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Nicolas Richard
<youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org> wrote:
>
> Finally marking as done. Sorry for the long delay.

Thank you!  Does the obsoleted landmark.el need an "Obsolete-since"
header?

Message #19 received at 20898 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog <at> members.fsf.org>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 20898 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20898: 25.0.50; Move landmark.el to elpa
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 07:57:00 +0200

Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com> writes:
>             Does the obsoleted landmark.el need an "Obsolete-since"
> header?

Indeed, thanks for noticing. Done now.

Nico.

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