Please upload emacs22 22.1-0ubuntu10

The emacs22-common-non-dfsg package is not needed at all. It is an artifact from Debian's emacs22 package.

Archive admins, please remove emacs22-common-non-dfsg.

To reduce deviation from Debian, shouldn't we rather promote the emacs22-non-dfsg source and binaries to main, add a dependency from our emacs22 package and drop the files from our emacs22? If I just remove the package, then upgrades will still break (since it's not automatically removed on upgrades), so you need a Conflicts:/Replaces: on emacs22 anyway. However, using the Debian packages seems much more sensible to me.

If you prefer keeping the current structure, please add the Conflicts/Replaces, then I can remove the package.

No, we should absolutely not use Debian's packaging :^) .

I'll add the necessary Conflicts/Replaces lines to our own packaging in the near future, and will reply to this bug again when I have done so.

It would be helpful if you said why we should not use Debian's packaging.

I've explained my reasons for creating this separate package in the #ubuntu-devel channel earlier in the year. It would seem that people need a hard-copy version of these reasons, so I'm going to add something to the wiki to cover this. I'm going to shoot for tomorrow night to both write this up and check in a fixed package.

Here's my write-up on why I want to keep the packages separate: <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MichaelOlson/WhyDifferentEmacs>. I ran out of time on the Conflicts/Replaces line, so that will have to wait until a week or two, due to holiday traveling.

Thanks for the write-up. I added that link and the package to the sync-blacklist, so that it won't turn up again and removed emacs22-non-dfsg.

Will remove the following packages from hardy:

emacs22-common-non-dfsg | 22.1+1-1 | amd64, hppa, i386, ia64, lpia, powerpc, sparc
emacs22-non-dfsg | 22.1+1-1 | source

------------------- Reason -------------------
(pitti) Ubuntu emacs22 has all the docs, maintained independently
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Going to remove the packages now.

Remaining task is now to add the Conflicts/Replaces:

Here's the change which fixes this, along with several other bugs. Debdiff attached.

emacs22 (22.1-0ubuntu10) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Conflict and Replace emacs22-common-non-dfsg
    (LP: #172389). Thanks to Jamie Raymond for the report.
  * debian/emacs.prerm: Remove alternatives in reverse creation order
    (LP: #162932). Thanks to James Troup for the report.
  * debian/emacs.menu.in:
    - Use Applications/Editors instead of Apps/Editors as per menu policy.
    - Move menu definition for "emacs -nw" here, and delete
      emacs-common.menu.in. This way, if the user installs emacs22-nox,
      they will not have an unwanted menu item added (LP: #157984).
      Thanks to Ryan for the report.
  * debian/patches:
    - feature-spell-warning.diff: New patch that displays a warning when
      spell is used and the spell binary is not installed (LP: #154989).
    - fix-comint-sudo.diff: New patch that causes comint to recognize the
      sudo prompt used by Ubuntu (LP: #162890).
    - Rename CVE-2007-6109.diff to fix-format-overflow.diff so that it
      shows up in README.Debian. Add patch header as well.
    - fix-local-vars-security.diff: Add CVE ID.
  * debian/README.in:
    - Place Ubuntu rather than Debian in the header line.
    - Add link to further explanation for why we use a separate package.
    - Clarify what "this package" means.
    - Together this fixes LP: #180164. Thanks to era for the report and
      patch.
  * debian/rules: Don't build debian/emacs-common.menu and don't call
    dh_installmenu -i.

 -- Michael W. Olson (GNU address) <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:00:57 -0500

Michael (mvo): can you take a look at it?

I'm pinging the sponsors for main again, because it has been a week since there was last activity on this upload request, and nearly two weeks since the upload was requested.

This bug was fixed in the package emacs22 - 22.1-0ubuntu10

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emacs22 (22.1-0ubuntu10) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Conflict and Replace emacs22-common-non-dfsg
    (LP: #172389). Thanks to Jamie Raymond for the report.
  * debian/emacs.prerm: Remove alternatives in reverse creation order
    (LP: #162932). Thanks to James Troup for the report.
  * debian/emacs.menu.in:
    - Use Applications/Editors instead of Apps/Editors as per menu policy.
    - Move menu definition for "emacs -nw" here, and delete
      emacs-common.menu.in. This way, if the user installs emacs22-nox,
      they will not have an unwanted menu item added (LP: #157984).
      Thanks to Ryan for the report.
  * debian/patches:
    - feature-spell-warning.diff: New patch that displays a warning when
      spell is used and the spell binary is not installed (LP: #154989).
    - fix-comint-sudo.diff: New patch that causes comint to recognize the
      sudo prompt used by Ubuntu (LP: #162890).
    - Rename CVE-2007-6109.diff to fix-format-overflow.diff so that it
      shows up in README.Debian. Add patch header as well.
    - fix-local-vars-security.diff: Add CVE ID.
  * debian/README.in:
    - Place Ubuntu rather than Debian in the header line.
    - Add link to further explanation for why we use a separate package.
    - Clarify what "this package" means.
    - Together this fixes LP: #180164. Thanks to era for the report and
      patch.
  * debian/rules: Don't build debian/emacs-common.menu and don't call
    dh_installmenu -i.

 -- <email address hidden> (Michael W. Olson (GNU address)) Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:00:57 -0500