Re: emacsen: need plan to fix leftover cruft in share/emacs/XX.Y...

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

Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca> writes:

> I understand your hesitation, but that leaves cruft under
> /usr/share/emacs/19.34 if that version has already been purged
> and will never be installed again.

IMO, this is probably just historical cruft we have to deal with,
unless as you say, we're going to add a dpkg --status, or whatever to
check for the old versions.  I know in the "old days" you weren't
supposed to invoke dpkg recursively.  Is that no longer true?

I suppose, if dpkg is a no-no, we could always use some other test,
say checking for /usr/bin/emacs19 or similar...

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