Re: Bug#65320: gettext: fails on postinst
reassign 65320 gettext
thanks
(Santiago, if you haven't been following this lately, check the bug
log, and/or the debian-emacsen list. Thanks.)
Toby Speight <streapadair@gmx.net> writes:
> Rob> If this were in fact "safe", then we could think about changing
> Rob> debian-emacs-policy to fully eliminate the requirement that packages
> Rob> that have emacs components *depend* on emacsen, but instead they
> Rob> just check for /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install, and if
> Rob> found, run it. This is certainly more flexible, but I'm wondering
> Rob> if there are nasties that I'm overlooking.
>
> What happens if emacsen is installed *after* package 'foo' that uses
> it? AIUI, foo won't get its emacs components configured at all then.
I think you may have hit the nail on the head. I wasn't thinking
about the fact that emacsen-common doesn't re-run all the scripts when
it itself is installed.
This is why I'm very hesitant to go back and relax restrictions I put
into debian-emacs-policy initially. It's complicated, and easy to get
wrong. It took a lot of head-scratching to get things "right"
originally, and I don't want to change things without being really
careful that we're not breaking previous assumptions.
So I guess we're back to the original question -- could we just add a
gettext-el package that depends on emacsen (or whatever combination of
emacs pkgs gettext supports -- see policy for Depends: details)?
--
Rob Browning
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