Re: Bug#61167: emacsen-common: major bug in policy (not RC for potato)

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:07:21PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
> Unless someone has a compelling reason arguing against this, I'm going
> to just change emacsen-policy to mandate that each emacsen should make
> the version specific dir, i.e.
> 
>   /usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp
> 
> be a symlink to the flavor dir, i.e.
> 
>   /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp
> 
> This seems simplest, doesn't present any serious problems that I can
> see, and is certainly better than the current arrangement, but let me
> know if you think I'm mistaken.

AFAICT, that seems to make sense.  The only issue is the transition
between the old system and the new (dpkg doesn't like replacing
symlinks with directories).  I don't know how to resolve this,
though.

   Julian

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