#993408 fountain-mode: restore print export functionality

Package:
elpa-fountain-mode
Source:
fountain-mode
Submitter:
Nicholas D Steeves
Date:
2021-08-31 20:57:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
Blocked By:
Bug Title
960269

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 RFP: afterwriting -- Afterwriting provides post-processing tools for Fountain screenplays

wishlist stable testing unstable 9 months ago

#993408#5
Date:
2020-05-11 10:16:31 UTC
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Fountain-mode is out of date.  I have not imported the new series yet,
because it drops support for exporting to PDF.  Afterwriting looks
like a viable replacement for this functionality.  Afterwriting functionality exposed to Emacs should at least be equivalent to Atom's implementation:

https://atom.io/packages/fountain
#993408#12
Date:
2021-08-31 18:05:13 UTC
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Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Nicholas;

If PDF export is a dealbreaker for you maintaining the package, please
orphan it; if no-one picks it up and updates it we can remove it per
Paul's request.

d
#993408#17
Date:
2021-08-31 20:18:24 UTC
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David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

Shipping a newer version with missing support for print output was a
functionality regression (within the context of the self-contained
Debian archive) that is, in my opinion, in no way appropriate for
Bullseye (Debian 11)--ditto for this year's Ubuntu LTS; It took me
longer than expected to find my notes on this!  Now that the two have
been released, and we're beginning a new cycle, I agree that now is the
time to ship a newer, more polished, yet with reduced functionality
version.

But first, I'm going to file an RFP for Wrap, a Golang alternative to
Afterwriting that has a much more reasonable and manageable dependency
tree, and which I believe is a better fit for Debian due to its support
for non-English languages--it's been taking me far too long to get up to
speed with Golang packaging.  Sorry about that.  I also need to
apologise to Wrap's maintainer for missing that deadline :-$

Paul, as communicated previously, the deadline for completing that work
was 2021-02-12 (https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html),
and I wasn't able to learn Debian Golang packaging quickly enough.  To
give the ftpmasters time to review all the new dependencies would have
pushed the deadline closer to 2021-01-12 or even 2020-12-12.

Other than the RFP for Wrap, I'll update NEWS.Debian file to note the
regression and document the RFP bugs, and then the new Fountain-mode
release can be quickly prepared for upload.

Best,
Nicholas
#993408#22
Date:
2021-08-31 20:19:12 UTC
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clone 12345 -1
retitle -1 fountain-mode: restore print export functionality
unblock 960268 by 960269
thanks