Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa
Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> writes:
> CCing #989905 (base-files)
>
>> Setting user-package-dir to a nonexistent directory also seems to
>> work. Nick, can you try the dh-elpa version at
>> https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa ? Or just apply
>>
>> https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa/-/commit/600a1133903eb2f7d3b7d954467dcee0b2d0277b
>>
>> to /usr/lib/dh-elpa/helper/install
>>
>
> That's a cool low-friction solution! :-) P.S. How likely is a future
> where Emacs will return non-zero exit status if package-user-dir is not
> found? I'm guessing unlikely?
Indeed that issue is why I mention the other possibilities. At least as
far as stable releases go, I think we'll have enough notice to change to
a different strategy if emacs gets fussier. Luckily with the newer
dh-elpa setup we don't need to do any elpa-* package rebuilds to change
those scripts.
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