On 2013-01-23, Rob Browning wrote:
> Antoine Beaupré <anar...@koumbit.org> writes:
>
>> anarcat@angela:~$ ls -ald /etc/emacs*
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 jan 22 19:16 /etc/emacs
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 oct  3 10:43 /etc/emacs23 -> /etc/emacs/
>>
>> So yeah, this is a symlink pointing to itself... Not sure how I managed
>> that one, but I don't remember messing around with those files. Here are
>> the recent changes to the emacs* directories according to etckeeper:
>
> That's the key question -- how did you end up with a symlink there?
> /etc/emacs23 is owned by emacs23-common, where it's just a common file:
>
>   $ dpkg --contents emacs23-common_23.4+1-4_all.deb | grep etc/emacs23
>   drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-09-08 15:38 ./etc/emacs23/
>   drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-09-08 15:38 ./etc/emacs23/site-start.d/
>
> If you think you did make it a symlink, then "don't do that".  If not,
> we'll need to investigate further.

Hhm... Well, I don't recall, so I guess this should just be closed and
we move on. :/

A.

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