Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> writes:

> Here is the sequence of events:
>
> - apel/wheezy is configured: it does not byte-compile, apparently
>   because emacsen-common/wheezy is not yet configured
>
> - emacsen-common/wheezy is configured: it does *not* byte-compile apel
>
> - devscripts-el/wheezy is configured: it crashes, because it cannot find
>   mcharset.elc (which belongs to apel)
>
> I see only two possible solutions:
>
> - either force apel to be configured *after* emacsen-common: only a
>   direct dependency apel->emacsen-common can achieve that, and this
>   seems against the spirit of the recent changes to emacsen-common; so
>   this solution seems excluded
>
> - or have emacsen-common's postinst byte-compile all add-ons that are
>   already configured but not yet byte-compiled; I don't know if the fact
>   that this does not actually happen here is a bug in emacsen-common or
>   in apel. What is your stance on this?

OK, thanks for the explanation, and I'm not sure yet -- I'll need to
poke around, see if this is a bug, or just something I didn't consider.

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