Re: Bug#61167: emacsen-common: major bug in policy (not RC for potato)
- To: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
- Cc: 61167@bugs.debian.org, debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#61167: emacsen-common: major bug in policy (not RC for potato)
- From: Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:07:12 +0100
- Message-id: <20010522090712.A7836@polya>
- In-reply-to: <878zjqies5.fsf@raven.localnet>; from rlb@cs.utexas.edu on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:16:26PM -0500
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On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:16:26PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > AFAICT, that seems to make sense. The only issue is the transition
> > between the old system and the new (dpkg doesn't like replacing
> > symlinks with directories). I don't know how to resolve this,
> > though.
>
> Hmm. I didn't realize that was a problem. Has there been any
> discussion about this I could read before badgering people? (I'll go
> look at the bugtracker when I get a chance).
I suggest asking on -devel. One solution might be to leave
emacs{19,20} and xemacs{20,21} as they are, and to make this change
starting at emacs21 and xemacs22, although that is far from ideal.
Julian
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