package octave2.9-emacsen tags 416048 wontfix thanks * Pascal A. Dupuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-24 12:05]:
> Package: octave2.9-emacsen > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > [snip] > > May I also ask for the use of update-alternatives to use the right > versions of octave-inf and co ? There are indeed three sources: > emacs21-el_21.4a+1-3_all.deb > octave2.9-emacsen_2.9.9-8etch1_all.deb > octave2.1-emacsen Although it is not very desirable to have many versions of octave-*.el around, I do not really think that it is a real bug or, at least, that it should be fixed. Here is my rationale: First, implementing an update-alternatives mechanism for these files is quite complicated, because of the specifics of Emacsen initialization in Debian. I do not think that we could do it for the files in /etc/emacs/site-stard.d/ (they are configuration files, after all). Even worse, it would not help to set alternatives to the *.el files, since the *.elc files are compiled at install time. Second, the order of priority of the three packages providing Octave support for Emacsen is currently the following: 1) octave2.9-emacsen 2) octave2.1-emacsen 3) emacs21-el The octave2.*-emacsen packages contains the ultimate Emacs Lisp source files for the Octave support, meaning that they are preferable than the ones in emacs21-el. Also, the files in octave2.1-emacsen are not newer than the ones in octave2.9-emacsen. So, the priority order above is fortunate (although it was not designed to be so). I will let this bug report open for now, but will close it in the near future unless it is proven that this is a real bug. -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]