Re: emacsen-common: re-compilation of depends packages is not needed.

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

"Davide G. M. Salvetti" <salve@debian.org> writes:

> Yes, I try and explain myself better than what I did (I'm not so
> fluent in English as I'd rather to be).

No problem.  I understand.

> Thinking twice about this idea, however, I realize that the current
> situation wouldn't be so bad if every package used debconf if needed
> (i.e., if there wasn't any prompting in postinst): what really sucks
> is to have to wait in front of your computer waiting for the next
> question to be asked, instead of being able to let it do the upgrade
> without bothering to much.

Now that I understand what you're talking about, I tentatively agree.
Whil in theory I think that background compilation is a good idea, I'm
a little worried about how it would work in practice.  Getting all
that locking right, and worrying about stale locks, etc, while also
considering what happens in case of aborted or multiple dpkg runs just
seems like it'd be hard to get right.

I'll think more about it after I get 20.4 out.

Thanks

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