On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 05:06:33PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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. 

Hi all,

Forgot that you may still need to keep symlinks to .el files under the style
dir.
 
> > 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?

No, this would only be usefull for backports, it is probably an overkill.

Regards,

-- 
Agustin

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