Re: Bug#193439: emacsen-common: debian-emacs-policy and package setup in conffile
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> > I really think he's using gnus as an elsip package picked at random
> > to illlustrate that some packages break when you --remove them
> > (everything is fine when you --purge). The broken packages must be
> > due to following some template file; grep for "Nils Naumann" in
> > there...
>
> Well, it certainly did not come across that way.
Email is harder than face-to-face. I never see the same spin when the
message is not directed at me.
> > Kai is not a DD, just a very competent emacs person. Please cut him
> > some slack.
>
> I have spent some effort trying to ensure that Gnus is
> packaged well, and that it does behave properly when removed, or
> purged. I do find it irritating that competent emacs users (and I
> have been the beneficiary of Kai's skills in the past) think there is
> something wrong in the packaging and yet are not pointg it out to be
> fixed.
>
> But my point remains: Unless someone can show me how VM or
> Gnus mosbehave, we do not need to create more poliocy and additional
> directories to avoid buggy behaviour.
Well, for the record, _my_ packages were broken in that they setup stuff
that was no longer there. I have fixed that. In my defense they were
done early in my DD times and I was following a template. Fixing that
template will take care of a lot of problems.
We don't really need another directory. We can load another
(uneditable) startup file from the /etc startup file.
Peter
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