Hello,

I'm the author of the Emacs Fountain Mode package. The Debian package elpa-fountain-mode appears to have fallen some years out of date: https://repology.org/project/emacs:fountain-mode/versions

I've tried to get in touch with the Debian package maintainer Nicholas
D. Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> a few times without success.

Bug #960268 suggests that there is a block due to dropping support for exporting to PDF. This is inaccurate. I dropped the existing (partial)
support to export to LaTeX. Fountain Mode was never designed to export
to PDF. This functionality has always been best handled by the user's
choice of external command line tool.

May I suggest either updating elpa-fountain-mode to the current version
3.5.1 or removing the package from Debian?

Thanks,

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On 31 Aug 2021, at 3:42 pm, Paul W. Rankin <pwr@bydasein.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm the author of the Emacs Fountain Mode package. The Debian package elpa-fountain-mode appears to have fallen some years out of date:
https://repology.org/project/emacs:fountain-mode/versions

I've tried to get in touch with the Debian package maintainer Nicholas D. Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> a few times without success.

Bug #960268 suggests that there is a block due to dropping support for exporting to PDF. This is inaccurate. I dropped the existing (partial) support to export to LaTeX. Fountain Mode was never designed to export to PDF. This functionality has always

been best handled by the user's choice of external command line tool.

May I suggest either updating elpa-fountain-mode to the current version 3.5.1 or removing the package from Debian?

Hello,

There does not appear to be much enthusiasm to keep the Debian elpa-fountain-mode package at all up-to-date. As the upstream author I would appreciate if you would please remove it from Debian.

Thank you.

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"Paul W. Rankin" <pwr@bydasein.com> writes:

Hello,

There does not appear to be much enthusiasm to keep the Debian elpa-fountain-mode package at all up-to-date. As the upstream author I would appreciate if you would please remove it from Debian.

Thank you.

Version 3.5.1 is now available in Debian unstable. Assuming no serious
bugs crop up, it will in due time propagate to testing and (the next)
stable.

d

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On 2021-10-18 13:36, David Bremner wrote:

Version 3.5.1 is now available in Debian unstable. Assuming no serious
bugs crop up, it will in due time propagate to testing and (the next)
stable.

Also, we might like to provide a backport to Debian 11, so that 3.5.1 (or the new 3.5.3) will be available to users of current Debian stable, too.

Cheers

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On 19 Oct 2021, at 3:14 am, Martin <debacle@debian.org> wrote:

On 2021-10-18 13:36, David Bremner wrote:

Version 3.5.1 is now available in Debian unstable. Assuming no serious
bugs crop up, it will in due time propagate to testing and (the next)
stable.

Also, we might like to provide a backport to Debian 11, so that 3.5.1 (or the new 3.5.3) will be available to users of current Debian stable, too.

Sounds good, thanks!

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