readline-completion-el 0.1-1

Package Information

Description	completion-at-point-function based on GNU Readline This package provides completions from GNU Readline. It can be used in a comint buffer, to get completions from the underlying process (as you normally would in a regular terminal) or anywhere else to get completions from Bash.
Maintainer	Debian Emacsen team <debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org>
Changed By	Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Sponsor	spwhitton@debian.org
Distribution	unstable
Architecture	all
VCS	git: https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/readline-completion-el.git (browse)
Closes	#1153970
Tracker	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/readline-completion-el
Uploaded	1 hour ago

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Date	Sat, 14 Nov 2026 12:13:40 +0000
Source	readline-completion-el
Version	0.1-1
Changed-By	Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Architecture	all source
Distribution	unstable

Changelog◂

readline-completion-el (0.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * Initial release (Closes: #1153970).

.dsc◂

Component	main
Package-List	elpa-readline-completion deb editors optional arch=all
Section	editors
Priority	optional

debian/copyright◂

Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: readline-completion-el
Source: https://codeberg.org/astoff/readline-completion.el

Files: *
Copyright: 
 (C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License: GPL-3+

Files: debian/*
Copyright: (C) 2026 Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
License: GPL-3+

License: GPL-3+
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
 Public License version 3 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'

DFSG Assistant LLM REVIEW 0 blocker, 1 important, 0 minor

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DFSG NEW review for readline-completion-el version 0.1-1

Summary

Licensing is DFSG-compliant and debian/copyright is accurate: Yes
Packaging is of good quality: Yes
Issues: 0 blocker, 1 important, 0 minor
debian/watch: version 5
debian/copyright: machine-readable
Scan before the review: nothing found

Licensing

The whole upstream tree is three files (readline-completion.el, README.org, .gitignore); only readline-completion.el carries a notice, and it is Copyright (C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. under GPL-3+ (either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version). debian/copyright is DEP-5, names the FSF for Files: * and Sean Whitton for debian/*, and gives the GPL-3+ boilerplate plus a pointer to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3. Holder, short name and version all match the file, no third-party or non-free material is present, and every file is matched by a stanza. The prescan found no unmatched holder.

Packaging

Quilt source format, debhelper compat 14 (current), a minimal dh $@ --with elpa rules file, correct elpa binary package with ${elpa:Depends}/${misc:Depends}, Standards-Version 4.7.4 against Policy 4.7.4.1, Vcs-* and Homepage set, sane initial changelog closing the ITP. The generated elpa dependency (elpa-compat >= 31.1) matches Package-Requires and is available in the archive; dh_elpa's single-file path applies, and there are no patches, maintainer scripts or maintainer-added tests. No policy violation or user-visible bug found.

Issues

important packaging 1. uscan reports a warning for debian/watch ◂

Files: debian/watch
Basis: found by the review tooling's own checks

Evidence:

uscan warning: In debian/watch,
 no matching refs for watch line

Problem: uscan must run without errors or warnings and find the upstream releases.
Fix: Correct debian/watch so that uscan --report runs cleanly.

Verified ◂

File inventory: upstream is exactly readline-completion.el, README.org and .gitignore (identical to the members of readline-completion-el_0.1.orig.tar.xz); debian/ holds changelog, control, copyright, docs, elpa, gbp.conf, rules, salsa-ci.yml, source/format and watch. .pc/ and its contents were skipped as instructed.
Prescan listed no files at all: dfsg-author-check found every copyright holder it detected (the FSF) named in debian/copyright, so there is nothing to account for file by file.
readline-completion.el line 3 ;; Copyright (C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. and lines 11-14 (GPL-3 or later) are matched by the Files: * stanza's GPL-3+; README.org and .gitignore carry no separate notice and are covered by the same stanza. debian/ files are covered by Files: debian/*, Copyright Sean Whitton, GPL-3+.
The stand-alone License: GPL-3+ paragraph contains the GPL-3-or-later notice and points at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3; the Format: URL is the current copyright-format/1.0 one. No non-free wording (NC/ND, no-modification, field-of-use) occurs anywhere in the tree, and no LICENSE/COPYING/NOTICE file exists that the copyright file would have to reflect.
README.org line 52 states that contributions to the GNU ELPA package require copyright assignment to the FSF, which explains why the file notice names the FSF and not the Author: Augusto Stoffel header: no holder is missing.
Build/dependency checks: debhelper-compat (= 14) is supported by debhelper 14.5 (14 is the recommended level); dh-elpa 2.2.0 provides dh-sequence-elpa and ships dh_elpa/dh_elpa_test; ${elpa:Depends} derives elpa-compat (>= 31.1) from Package-Requires: ((emacs "29.1") (compat "31.1")) (dhelpa-debianise-deps in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/dh-elpa-2.2.0/dh-elpa.el, emacs filtered out) and elpa-compat 31.1.0.0+dfsg-1 exists in the archive; libreadline8t64 8.3-4 and bash 5.3-4 are in unstable, so the GNU Readline 8.3 feature the package relies on is available.
debian/elpa (*.el) resolves to the single file readline-completion.el, so dh_elpa takes its single-file path and derives the Emacs package name readline-completion from elpa-readline-completion, matching (provide 'readline-completion); Version 0.1 in the file matches 0.1-1.
No debian/patches (no series file), no maintainer scripts, no *.maintscript, no debian/tests; upstream ships no test suite, so dh_elpa_test has nothing to run. Recommends: emacs (unversioned) plus Enhances: emacs matches current Debian Emacsen team practice (cf. elpa-compat/elpa-magit control).
debian/changelog: single 0.1-1 entry, distribution unstable, urgency medium, ITP closure #1153970; Standards-Version 4.7.4 is current against Policy 4.7.4.1.
Every pointer of debian/copyright to /usr/share/common-licenses names a file that is there (GPL-3).

Not confirmed ◂

The ITP number #1153970 and the salsa Vcs-* repository could not be checked, since no URL may be read from here.
Why the model asked for what a review has no use for. During this review it asked once for something outside the package and the reviewing system (another file of the sandbox, or a URL), or was given part of the review tooling's own configuration, and that was refused or withheld. A model does this when something it has read tells it to, so look in the package for text addressed to a reviewing program, and treat this report with suspicion. Refused: grep: "xd://policy" is not a file of the package or of the reviewing system.

Proposed changes ◂

None.

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