On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 03:09:45PM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > To summarize: > > 1) Require that emacs init scripts which happen to be conffiles behave > nicely upon package removal, as already required for init.d scripts > by 3.3.2 of the policy manual.
This is what I will do right for all my packages having add-on elisp support. It seems obvious that startup elisp code must behave nicely under package removal. > 2) Have the Debian emacs loader frob establish a catch around its > invocations of load, to make (1) easier or other package > maintainers. The decision to implement that is up to the Debian Emacsen Policy maintainers. The change that you are proposing must be done in the file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el (from the emacsen-common package), more specifically in the function debian-run-directories, just before loading each file in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/. This change is harmless for the packages with add-on elisp code. > If the emacs people are all happy with it, I could write up a suitable > paragraph for a formal policy amendment. Perhaps that's not necessary > and it just needs to get added to to debian-emacs-policy. It would go > in section 6C of that file. Again, I'm happy to write exact language > if that would be useful. Please, write a proposal (or better: send us a patch to the file /usr/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy). Also, if possible, provide a patch for debian-startup.el. The "show me the code" approach is the better way to make faster progress. -- Rafale Laboissiere
