Ian Jackson writes: > If the bug is that the files are not loaded correctly: my tree puts > 50dpkg-dev.el in /etc/emacs/site-start.d, which from the bug report I > and from the Debian Emacsen policy I have (from emacsen-common 1.4.8) is > supposed to be loaded by every Emacs. > > Alternatively, if the bug is that the files aren't byte-compiled: > > I don't think this is a bug. In particular, I think the extra hassle, > unreliability and time consumed when installing/upgrading dpkg-dev > and/or emacs packages far outweigh any benefit to be gained from > having this file byte-compiled. > > (I agree that this would seem to apply to nearly any .el-containing > package.) > > Furthermore, the Debian Emacsen Policy doesn't seem to require files > like this to be byte-compiled. > > Given this, does the submitter agree that there is no bug here any > more at least in my tree ?
The problem seams to be fixed in the recent potato version. It is still there in the slink package. But I don�t think it is worth to fix it there. Christoph
