Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> wrote:

> I'd like to figure out what needs fixing and fix it, but I want to be
> careful because some of the emacsen-common stuff is trickier than I
> often think at first glance.
> 
> > 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...
> 
> Let me read this thread more carefully and try to understand the issue
> clearly, and I'll see if I have any suggestions.

I've decided to populate the Emacs-flavour specific directiories with
symlinks to the real .el files:

apt-sources.el -> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-el/apt-sources.el
apt-sources.elc
apt-utils.el -> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-el/apt-utils.el
apt-utils.elc
deb-view.el -> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-el/deb-view.el
deb-view.elc
debian-bug.el -> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-el/debian-bug.el
debian-bug.elc
debian-el-loaddefs.el -> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-el/debian-el-loaddefs.el
debian-el-loaddefs.elc
debian-el.el -> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-el/debian-el.el
debian-el.elc

When you think about it, it's the best way to be sure a file you don't
want loaded never get loaded.

I presume this should be in Emacs policy?

Peter