Deprecate all emacswiki packages.

[milkypostman]

We should avoid all emacswiki packages in MELPA.

At this point we should also avoid adding further wiki packages.

[purcell]

Amen.

[syl20bnr]

Will you provide somewhere the complete list of the future deprecated packages ?

[PythonNut]

Could deprecated packages be pulled from emacsmirror instead? I've talked to Drew Adams, and he wants to keep icicles on emacswiki.

[tarsius]

Will you provide somewhere the complete list of the future deprecated packages ?

M-x rgrep RET :fetcher wiki RET

Could deprecated packages be pulled from emacsmirror instead?

For that see #2128.

I believe that while pretty much everyone around here actually involved in the mirroring and packaging of elisp thinks that the wiki no longer is a good place to distribute libraries, dropping support for it is seen more as a long time goal. Just doing it now is also an option, but I don't think the hope that this would cause the remaining libraries to be migrated to some vcs repository sooner, is really justified.

I've talked to Drew Adams, and he wants to keep icicles on emacswiki.

We've all been there.

[glyph]

Apropos of the last commit referenced above, it looks like the deprecation is already done - is this issue just waiting for the last existing emacswiki recipe to actually be deleted?

[tarsius]

I've assigned this to myself as a way to keep track of it. This does not necessarily mean I will do something.