Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages
Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org> writes:
> Well, I'm sure that was done for a valid reason.
Yep, but it's hard to tell which...
> If I have to resort to the symlink solution, everybody who gets this
> problem will have to do the same thing. If emacsen-common gets fixed,
> it's fixed for everybody!
> How likely it is that we can get emacsen-common fixed? That package has
> seen a single upload since `oldstable' (woody?)
I don't know, Rob appears to be active but the package has certainly
seen less attention than it deserves. Perhaps Rob would be willing to
hand off maintenance of this package to a team of Emacs people in Debian
if we ask.
> I'd rather REMOVE /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el from the
> load-path altogether, except that breaks the ability to jump to the code
> when viewing variables and functions via `C-h v' and `C-h f'. Much
> easier and cleaner than maintaining a collection of symlinks...
I wouldn't have a problem with that, it's your choice. Perhaps there is
an alternate solution that we haven't thought of yet...
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