Hi Sean, Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun 27 Apr 2025 at 03:25am -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:
>
>> Interestingly, I cannot reproduce this with "apt dist-upgrade" which is
>> why I didn't notice this issue earlier. On inspecting the install log,
>> it looks like with "dist-upgrade", it will upgrade the emacs
>> installation before addons which will first uninstall all addons and
>> re-install them after emacs is configured, and hence worked around this
>> potential issue.
>>
>> Still, I think it's better to have this fixed so that it works in all
>> cases. I have tested a fix in the "bug#1104178" branch to be working.
>> The diff can be seen here[1]. Please review.
>
> It's an RC bug regardless; we always support partial upgrades, and
> therefore can't rely on package upgrade order like that.
>
> Given the freeze and dh-elpa's status as a toolchain package, we need to
> handle this very carefully.
>
> I think we need David's review on the basic approach taken by the patch
> before proceeding much further, but I can comment on the shell
> scripting:
>
> - TIL unlink(1). Let's just use rm(1).
>
> - Quote the output of readlink, i.e. "$(readlink "${SYMLINK}")".
> Quotation resets inside $().
>
> - "for file in ./*" not "for file in *"
> per https://dwheeler.com/essays/filenames-in-shell.html sec. 1.2
>
Thanks for the review. All suggestions implemented and the updated
version has been pushed to the branch. Also retested to be working.
Let's wait for David's comments.
> --
> Sean Whitton
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Regards,
Xiyue Deng
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