Debian Bug report logs - #861125
ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RFP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:13:23 -0400

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : elpa-writegood-mode
  Version         : 2.0.2
  Upstream Author : Benjamin Beckwith
* URL             : http://bnbeckwith.com/code/writegood-mode.html
* License         : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: Elisp
  Description     : Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

This is a minor mode to aid in finding common writing problems. Matt
Might’s weaselwords scripts inspired this mode.

It highlights text based on a set of weasel-words, passive-voice and
duplicate words.

----

I use this when writing journalistic articles, fairly useful. No
dependencies that I know of.

LWN made a review of similar tools for Emacs here and here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/692054/
https://lwn.net/Articles/692872/

... but I haven't found something better just yet.

I'd be happy to comaintain this with the elpa team if no one steps
up.

Message #10 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

To: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@debian.org>, 861125@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: RFP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:46:13 -0400

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control: -1 owner
control: -1 retitle ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Hi Antoine,

I'll do this one too, because it's something I'm interested in and
wish I had had as an undergrad.  Y-a-t'il une version française?
C'est quelque dont j'apprécierais énormément!

Cordially,
Nicholas

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Message #28 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

Cc: 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: RFP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 08:06:50 -0400

On 2017-04-24 20:46:13, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> control: -1 owner
> control: -1 retitle ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing
>
> Hi Antoine,
>
> I'll do this one too, because it's something I'm interested in and
> wish I had had as an undergrad.

Great!

> Y-a-t'il une version française?
> C'est quelque dont j'apprécierais énormément!

This is for english, and is rather simple, as I mentioned. A french
version would require a completely different package, or a severe
reconfiguration of this one... I looked into Grammalecte here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860579

.. but it's not quite ready to be packaged just yet...

A.

-- 
That's one of the remarkable things about life: it's never so bad that
it can't get worse.
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Message #33 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

To: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

Cc: 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:17:28 -0400

control: tags -1 pending

Hi Antoine,

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 08:06:50AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On 2017-04-24 20:46:13, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> 
> > Y-a-t'il une version française?
> > C'est quelque dont j'apprécierais énormément!
> 
> This is for english, and is rather simple, as I mentioned. A french
> version would require a completely different package, or a severe
> reconfiguration of this one... I looked into Grammalecte here:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860579
> 
> .. but it's not quite ready to be packaged just yet...

It will take some time to learn how this one works, but another reason
I'm interested in maintaining writegood-mode is I'm certain I can
contribute to it.  Preliminary packaging is here:
ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/writegood-mode.git

Oh, I failed to ask in the writeroom RFP thread: Do you like the idea
of teaming up for that mini project (or a similar project).

I can't wait until Grammalecte is ready! :-)  How does it compare to a
famous business wordprocessor's grammar check, or to bonpatron?

Cheers,
Nicholas

Message #40 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

Cc: 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:37:12 -0400

On 2017-04-25 11:17:28, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> control: tags -1 pending
>
> Hi Antoine,
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 08:06:50AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> On 2017-04-24 20:46:13, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>> 
>> > Y-a-t'il une version française?
>> > C'est quelque dont j'apprécierais énormément!
>> 
>> This is for english, and is rather simple, as I mentioned. A french
>> version would require a completely different package, or a severe
>> reconfiguration of this one... I looked into Grammalecte here:
>> 
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860579
>> 
>> .. but it's not quite ready to be packaged just yet...
>
> It will take some time to learn how this one works, but another reason
> I'm interested in maintaining writegood-mode is I'm certain I can
> contribute to it.  Preliminary packaging is here:
> ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/writegood-mode.git

Excellent. Same remark than writeroom about uploading to
mentors.debian.net. :) But it's great you pushed into git!

(It's just that I'm lazy: mentors.debian.net shows lintian output for
me... ;))

> Oh, I failed to ask in the writeroom RFP thread: Do you like the idea
> of teaming up for that mini project (or a similar project).

Sure, I can try - but I don't have much time unfortunately. I would
rather see the other emacsen people join in here - I'm not even part of
that team yet!

> I can't wait until Grammalecte is ready! :-)  How does it compare to a
> famous business wordprocessor's grammar check, or to bonpatron?

I don't quite know yet.

A.

-- 
Code is law.
                         - Lawrence Lessig

Message #45 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

To: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

Cc: 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 18:27:11 -0400

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:37:12PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> On 2017-04-25 11:17:28, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> >
> > It will take some time to learn how this one works, but another reason
> > I'm interested in maintaining writegood-mode is I'm certain I can
> > contribute to it.  Preliminary packaging is here:
> > ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/writegood-mode.git
> 
> Excellent. Same remark than writeroom about uploading to
> mentors.debian.net. :) But it's great you pushed into git!
> 
> (It's just that I'm lazy: mentors.debian.net shows lintian output for
> me... ;))

I've uploaded a package for review.  Since I'm still a DM, would you
please sponsor it if it looks good?  I'd be happy to add you to
uploaders, if you'd like.

https://mentors.debian.net/package/writegood-mode
dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/writegood-mode/writegood-mode_2.0.2-1.dsc

> > Oh, I failed to ask in the writeroom RFP thread: Do you like the idea
> > of teaming up for that mini project (or a similar project).
> 
> Sure, I can try - but I don't have much time unfortunately. I would
> rather see the other emacsen people join in here - I'm not even part of
> that team yet!

I'd even appreciate occasional mockups/screenshots, brainstorming, or
wish lists, because I find they're good for staying motivated and
avoiding the "questions have more than one answer" pitfall when
implementing solutions ;-)

Cheers,
Nicholas

Message #50 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

Cc: 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:07:09 -0400

On 2017-04-25 18:27:11, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:37:12PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> On 2017-04-25 11:17:28, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>> >
>> > It will take some time to learn how this one works, but another reason
>> > I'm interested in maintaining writegood-mode is I'm certain I can
>> > contribute to it.  Preliminary packaging is here:
>> > ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/writegood-mode.git
>> 
>> Excellent. Same remark than writeroom about uploading to
>> mentors.debian.net. :) But it's great you pushed into git!
>> 
>> (It's just that I'm lazy: mentors.debian.net shows lintian output for
>> me... ;))
>
> I've uploaded a package for review.  Since I'm still a DM, would you
> please sponsor it if it looks good?  I'd be happy to add you to
> uploaders, if you'd like.
>
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/writegood-mode
> dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/writegood-mode/writegood-mode_2.0.2-1.dsc

thanks!

here's a short review.

 1. the package's description doesn't mention "emacs" or "english" - in
    the original RFP, i used this instead:

    Description     : Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing
      This is a minor mode to aid in finding common writing
      problems. Matt Might’s weaselwords scripts inspired this mode.
      .
      It highlights text based on a set of weasel-words, passive-voice
      and duplicate words.

 2. that version patch - really necessary? if upstream screwed up their
    versioning, it's kind of their problem no? since it's just a
    cosmetic change, I would avoid it, personnally.

 3. if you still think it's necessary, explain *why* it is there in the
    changelog, not just "it's there". :) same in the patch: not "what"
    but "why" in commitlogs...

 4. picking a random elpa package (elpa-helm), i notice it depends on
    "emacs" while yours depend on "emacs-common" - why? and why the
    versioned dependencies?

    https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/helm.git/tree/debian/control

I'm not very familiar with "elpa" packages, so I don't know if it works
or not - did you actually test this? :)

Thanks!

A.

-- 
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.
                        - Lucy Parsons

Message #55 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicholas Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

To: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

Cc: 861125@bugs.debian.org, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:22:23 -0400

Hi Antoine and Sean,

If you don't know each other yet, I'll just say that you two of the
most friendly and patient people I've met through Debian.

Sean, I've CC'ed you because Antoine expressed interest in joining the
pkg-emacsen team, and he asked me a couple of questions about dh-elpa
and dh-make-elpa that I couldn't answer.  I'd be happy to work your
replies into a documentation patch, or a wiki page if you're busy.
The questions we need help with are at 2. and especially 4.

On 25 April 2017 at 19:07, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> wrote:
> On 2017-04-25 18:27:11, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:37:12PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>>> On 2017-04-25 11:17:28, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>>> >
>>> > It will take some time to learn how this one works, but another reason
>>> > I'm interested in maintaining writegood-mode is I'm certain I can
>>> > contribute to it.  Preliminary packaging is here:
>>> > ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/writegood-mode.git
>>>
>>> Excellent. Same remark than writeroom about uploading to
>>> mentors.debian.net. :) But it's great you pushed into git!
>>>
>>> (It's just that I'm lazy: mentors.debian.net shows lintian output for
>>> me... ;))
>>
>> I've uploaded a package for review.  Since I'm still a DM, would you
>> please sponsor it if it looks good?  I'd be happy to add you to
>> uploaders, if you'd like.
>>
>> https://mentors.debian.net/package/writegood-mode
>> dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/writegood-mode/writegood-mode_2.0.2-1.dsc
>
> thanks!
>
> here's a short review.
>
>  1. the package's description doesn't mention "emacs" or "english" - in
>     the original RFP, i used this instead:
>
>     Description     : Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing
>       This is a minor mode to aid in finding common writing
>       problems. Matt Might’s weaselwords scripts inspired this mode.
>       .
>       It highlights text based on a set of weasel-words, passive-voice
>       and duplicate words.

My apologies, I failed to scrutinise the differences between the
description you provided and the one dh-make-elpa generated.  I've
merged your copy and credited you in d/copyright.  D/* uses the same
license as upstream package, which you said was your preference in
another thread, so I assume this is ok.  By the way, dh-make-elpa and
gbp make it really easy to do these packages.  From the manpage (plus
addition of the gbp repo creation)

% git clone -o upstream https://foo.org/foo.git
% cd foo
% git reset --hard 1.0.0    # package latest stable release
% dh-make-elpa --pkg-emacsen
% git add debian && git commit -m "initial Debianisation"
% git deborig
% dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
% gbp create-remote-repo --remote-url-pattern=ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/foo.git

>  2. that version patch - really necessary? if upstream screwed up their
>     versioning, it's kind of their problem no? since it's just a
>     cosmetic change, I would avoid it, personnally.

Is it just a cosmetic change?  I chose to be cautious out of ignorance
of how elpa/MELPA works, because I wonder if it uses this versioning
to decide whether to download local-to-$USER updates.  We don't
recommend that users mix packaging systems like this, of course, and I
guess it could be argued that if the system provided version
(unpatched is 2.1) is higher than the upstream one (2.0.1), then MELPA
would refuse to download locale-to-$USER updates until upstream tagged
2.1.0.  I plan to drop a similar patch for writeroom-mode, because the
convention of most of these upstreams seems to be to only increment
major and minor versions but not patch-level versions.

>  3. if you still think it's necessary, explain *why* it is there in the
>     changelog, not just "it's there". :) same in the patch: not "what"
>     but "why" in commitlogs...

" * Add filename.patch for maximal correctness and just to be extra
safe" didn't seem like a strong enough case, and I prefer to do the
work when I have time and revert if unnecessary.  If it's truly just
cosmetic I'll drop it.  'good for some gbp pq practice and another
lesson in how *self describing file names are not sufficient for
debian changelogs* ;-)

>  4. picking a random elpa package (elpa-helm), i notice it depends on
>     "emacs" while yours depend on "emacs-common" - why? and why the
>     versioned dependencies?
>
>     https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/helm.git/tree/debian/control

My best guess is it's the difference between a package converted to
elpa vs a package created with dh-make-elpa, and I Sean has reasons
for generating versioned dependencies by default.  This is actually
one of the reasons I was paranoid about 2. ;-)

> I'm not very familiar with "elpa" packages, so I don't know if it works
> or not - did you actually test this? :)

Yes, and I was surprised to see teal squiggly lines appear...for
passive voice :-o Also, at the moment, the versioned dependencies for
sid can be satisfied on stretch. (I built in a sid cowbuilder but
installed on stretch).

Cheers,
Nicholas

Message #60 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>

To: Nicholas Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

Cc: 861125@bugs.debian.org, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:26:49 -0400

Hi!

I unfortunately won't have time to review this further - but don't block
on anything from me, all is good if spwhitton goes it. ;)

And i'm fine with licensing the description as you see fit.

A.
-- 
Ce que les siècles des grands abatoirs nous aura appris
Devrait être inscrit au fond de toutes les écoles;
Voici l'homme: le destructeur des mondes est arrivé.
                        - [no one is innocent]

Message #65 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

To: Nicholas Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

Cc: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>, 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 13:36:10 -0700

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Hello Nicholas,

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 09:22:23PM -0400, Nicholas Steeves wrote:
> The questions we need help with are at 2. and especially 4.

Okay -- I'll answer those.

> >  2. that version patch - really necessary? if upstream screwed up their
> >     versioning, it's kind of their problem no? since it's just a
> >     cosmetic change, I would avoid it, personnally.
> 
> Is it just a cosmetic change?

Nicholas is right.  It's not just a cosmetic change.  It's important
that ELPA package versions match Debian package versions.

In addition to enabling users to mix package.el packages and Debian
elpa-* packages, it ensures that Emacs has the right information to tell
whether versioned ELPA dependencies are satisfied.  Otherwise it can
refuse to load packages/try to download new versions from MELPA.

> >  4. picking a random elpa package (elpa-helm), i notice it depends on
> >     "emacs" while yours depend on "emacs-common" - why? and why the
> >     versioned dependencies?
> >
> >     https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/helm.git/tree/debian/control
> 
> My best guess is it's the difference between a package converted to
> elpa vs a package created with dh-make-elpa, and I Sean has reasons
> for generating versioned dependencies by default.  This is actually
> one of the reasons I was paranoid about 2. ;-)

That's a bug in elpa-helm.  It should be emacsen-common.  See the Debian
Emacs policy.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Message #70 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>, 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:23:45 -0400

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Hi Sean,

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 01:36:10PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello Nicholas,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 09:22:23PM -0400, Nicholas Steeves wrote:
> > The questions we need help with are at 2. and especially 4.
> 
> Okay -- I'll answer those.
> 
> > >  2. that version patch - really necessary? if upstream screwed up their
> > >     versioning, it's kind of their problem no? since it's just a
> > >     cosmetic change, I would avoid it, personnally.
> > 
> > Is it just a cosmetic change?
> 
> Nicholas is right.  It's not just a cosmetic change.  It's important
> that ELPA package versions match Debian package versions.

Thank you for mentoring me to err on the side of caution :-) As a
rule, for Debian, is it most correct that the embedded version in the
headers be patched to reflect x.y.z tag, even if upstream only updates
the header version for x.y?  Also, to make this stranger yet, the
MELPA uses date-based snapshot versioning. eg: 20160802.1405

https://melpa.org/#/writegood-mode

> In addition to enabling users to mix package.el packages and Debian
> elpa-* packages, it ensures that Emacs has the right information to tell
> whether versioned ELPA dependencies are satisfied.  Otherwise it can
> refuse to load packages/try to download new versions from MELPA.
> 
> > >  4. picking a random elpa package (elpa-helm), i notice it depends on
> > >     "emacs" while yours depend on "emacs-common" - why? and why the
> > >     versioned dependencies?
> > >
> > >     https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/helm.git/tree/debian/control
> > 
> > My best guess is it's the difference between a package converted to
> > elpa vs a package created with dh-make-elpa, and I Sean has reasons
> > for generating versioned dependencies by default.  This is actually
> > one of the reasons I was paranoid about 2. ;-)
> 
> That's a bug in elpa-helm.  It should be emacsen-common.  See the Debian
> Emacs policy.

I fixed this as a team upload, and pushed the changes.
The package is also available here:

https://mentors.debian.net/package/helm
dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/helm/helm_2.5.0-2.dsc

I only tested that it built and installed without error because I'm
not familiar with helm.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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Message #75 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

Cc: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>, 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:04:17 -0700

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On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:23:45PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Thank you for mentoring me to err on the side of caution :-) As a
> rule, for Debian, is it most correct that the embedded version in the
> headers be patched to reflect x.y.z tag, even if upstream only updates
> the header version for x.y?  Also, to make this stranger yet, the
> MELPA uses date-based snapshot versioning. eg: 20160802.1405
> 
> https://melpa.org/#/writegood-mode

It shouldn't be patched to add a minor version.  This is because other
ELPA package authors won't include this in their versioned
dependencies.

> I fixed this as a team upload, and pushed the changes.
> The package is also available here:
> 
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/helm
> dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/helm/helm_2.5.0-2.dsc
> 
> I only tested that it built and installed without error because I'm
> not familiar with helm.

Thanks for the fix -- though this would need to go to experimental due
to the freeze.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Message #80 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>, 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 10:39:22 -0400

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On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 04:04:17PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:23:45PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> > Thank you for mentoring me to err on the side of caution :-) As a
> > rule, for Debian, is it most correct that the embedded version in the
> > headers be patched to reflect x.y.z tag, even if upstream only updates
> > the header version for x.y?  Also, to make this stranger yet, the
> > MELPA uses date-based snapshot versioning. eg: 20160802.1405
> > 
> > https://melpa.org/#/writegood-mode
> 
> It shouldn't be patched to add a minor version.  This is because other
> ELPA package authors won't include this in their versioned
> dependencies.
> 
> > I fixed this as a team upload, and pushed the changes.
> > The package is also available here:
> > 
> > https://mentors.debian.net/package/helm
> > dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/helm/helm_2.5.0-2.dsc
> > 
> > I only tested that it built and installed without error because I'm
> > not familiar with helm.
> 
> Thanks for the fix -- though this would need to go to experimental due
> to the freeze.

Hi Sean,

You're welcome, and thank you for the assistance.  'Hope you're
enjoying settling into your new home :-)

I think src:writegood-mode is ready to upload.  Since Antoine is going
to be busy for a while would you please consider sponsoring this one?

It builds these binary packages:

    elpa-writegood-mode - Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:

    https://mentors.debian.net/package/writegood-mode

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

    dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/writegood-mode/writegood-mode_2.0.2-1.dsc

Also available here:

    git clone ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-emacsen/pkg/writegood-mode.git

Sincerely,
Nicholas

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Message #85 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>, 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: P.S. Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 10:46:47 -0400

P.S. I had already filed RFS Bug #861699.  For future reference, which
is correct?

1) I. someone files an RFP, II. one takes ownership and retitles it to an
ITP, III. if one then needs a sponsor one drops ownership and retitles to
an RFS ... [ITP]

2) I and II remain the same, but instead of III, file a new RFS.

Message #90 received at 861125@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>

To: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

Cc: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>, 861125@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#861125: ITP: elpa-writegood-mode -- Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 10:21:29 -0700

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On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:39:22AM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> I think src:writegood-mode is ready to upload.  Since Antoine is going
> to be busy for a while would you please consider sponsoring this one?

I hope to take a look, but it will probably have to wait until the end
of next week -- I'm changing continents for the summer.

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:46:47AM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> P.S. I had already filed RFS Bug #861699.  For future reference, which
> is correct?
> 
> 1) I. someone files an RFP, II. one takes ownership and retitles it to an
> ITP, III. if one then needs a sponsor one drops ownership and retitles to
> an RFS ... [ITP]
> 
> 2) I and II remain the same, but instead of III, file a new RFS.

(2).  The RFP/ITP and RFS are completely separate.  The RFS should block
the ITP.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Message #97 received at 861125-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>

To: 861125-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#861125: fixed in writegood-mode 2.0.2-1

Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 14:00:18 +0000

Source: writegood-mode
Source-Version: 2.0.2-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
writegood-mode, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 861125@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> (supplier of updated writegood-mode package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 21:49:52 -0400
Source: writegood-mode
Binary: elpa-writegood-mode
Architecture: all source
Version: 2.0.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Emacs addons team <pkg-emacsen-addons@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com>
Closes: 861125
Description: 
 elpa-writegood-mode - Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing
Changes:
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 .
   * Initial release. (Closes: #861125)
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       needs a newer version of writegood-mode than this, Emacs should
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