[csw-maintainers] checkpkg - why emacscommon for subversion tools?

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Am 15.05.2010 um 19:42 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
>> Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:
>>> Excerpts from rupert THURNER's message of Sat May 15 13:12:27 -0400
>>> 2010:
>>>> could it be an error in checkpkg that it insists requiring
>>>> "emacscommon" for subversion tools or contrib?
>>>>
>>>> CHECKPKG_OVERRIDES_CSWsvn-tools += missing-dependency|CSWemacscommon
>>>> CHECKPKG_OVERRIDES_CSWsvn-contrib +=
>>>> missing-dependency|CSWemacscommon
>>>
>>> This is added when .el files are detected in the package.  If you
>>> don't want the dependency, either use the suggested override or split
>>> out the .el stuff into a separate _el package that does have the
>>> dependency.
>>>
>>> If the package doesn't have .el files, this would be a bug.
>>
>> It has psvn.el
>
> Ok, I would tend to override the checkpkg warning. The .el-file is
> pretty optional and only useful *if* you use emacs, but using emacs
> is not mandatory ;-)

This and also because the psvn.el supplied with subversion is very often
out of date I propose to have a separate package containing this file
from the source, i.e., upstream.
-- 
Peter