Re: Bug#399284: gettext-el: loads other packages' site-files when byte-compiling for xemacs
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 05:56:55PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > *) should there be a lintian warning for this?
>
> I took a look at the /u/l/e-c/p/i/* files in my sistem. There are as
> many different ways to write them as there are files. Some are using a
> slightly edited debhelper template, some have weird package specific
> workarounds, and some look like NIH rewrites. I don't think there's much of
> a chance to get lintian to do a reasonable job of this.
>
> Maybe we should all stop the silly GNUEmacs vs XEmacs war, at least
> within Debian[1], and get them to converge at least in command line
> options.
>
> [1] Yeah, you may say I'm a dreamer.
Following Ockham's razor, I finally fixed this in gettext by using
-no-site-file for all emacsen, since it is accepted by all of them.
Thanks.
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