site-lisp directory for Emacs flavors
The Debian Emacs Policy says:
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| /usr/share/<flavor>/site-lisp should be used instead of the normal
| site-lisp directory for that flavor of emacs, and the package for a
| given flavor of emacs should not have the normal site-lisp
| directory. For example, instead of the emacs21 package having
| /usr/share/emacs/21.1/site-lisp, it should only have
| /usr/share/emacs21/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.
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Actually, this compatibility symlink exists in current Debian Emacsen,
so this paragraph and especially the last sentence makes little sense
to me. Can somebody shed a light on this?
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