Re: Bug#61167: emacsen-common: major bug in policy (not RC for potato)
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:11:34AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > Here's another suggestion. Why not leave the existing emacsen
> > packages as they are and apply the rule only to new versions of
> > emacs (so emacs21 and xemacs22 onwards)? That will save the hassle,
> > I guess.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. That sounded like the right thing to me.
> Accordingly, after consulting with dres, I've modified
> debian-emacs-policy to fix the problem. However, the emacs20 packages
> may never be fixed, but the emacs21 packages will be fixed upon first
> release.
s/may never/will never/.
Sounds goods otherwise!
> Here's the relevant text from the upcoming emacsen-common policy.
>
> /usr/share/<flavor>/site-lisp should be used instead of the normal
> site-lisp directory for that flavor of emacs. In addition, the
> package for a given flavor of emacs should not have the normal
> site-lisp directory. For example, instead of the emacs20 package
> having /usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp, it should only have
> /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp. This is important because it allows
> us to avoid having dangling directories for old versions across
> upgrades. We could have chosen to keep a compatibility symlink, but
> that seemed likely to mask bugs in the debianized packages.
But if it's only for emacs21 onwards, let's give an appropriate
example, and a footnote that this only applies from emacs21/xemacs22
onwards.
Julian
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