Should debian-emacs-flavor symbol be allowed at large?

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

I wrote:

> Altenatively, should I simply setup my emacs21 to load debian-startup.el
> and call `(debian-startup 'emacs)` ?

The following means to work okay so far to use an unpackaged
emacs-21 with Debian add-on elisp packages:

(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/")
(load "debian-startup")
(debian-startup 'emacs)

Peter