Control: severity -1 serious
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 05:54:07PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 11:13:29PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Package: auctex
> > Version: 11.91-1
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > With the recent upgrade of emacs to the non-numbered package names,
> > emacs25 is now just a transitional package. As a result, the
> > debian-emacs-flavor is just "emacs", so the test on line 7 of
> > /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50auctex.el fails and the package is not
> > autoloaded.
> >
> > Patch: add "emacs" to this list, so that it reads:
> >
> > (if (member debian-emacs-flavor '(emacs24 emacs25 emacs-snapshot emacs))
IMHO this is release critical, feel free to downgrade again if you
disagree.
>...
> If you want auctex to be installable only in unversioned Emacs, things are
> simple, just remove all the symlinks stuff and leave emacs as the only
> option in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50auctex.el and the install/remove
> scripts.
>
> If you want it to work for older releases you will need to be more careful,
> since for unversioned Emacs sources and byte-compile dirs are the same, and
> symlinks will fail. You will need to add some checks to prevent this.
>...
Is this actually required?
A dependency could be changed to only support the unversioned emacs.
> Regards,
cu
Adrian
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