Erick Branderhorst writes in private email (I hope he doesn't mind me posting): > I noticed that dpkg comes with debian-changelog-mode.el instead of > a precompiled .elc file. > > Here is a file elisp-comp which is used in several gnu packages as > well for compiling and installing .el[c] files:
Hmm. Is it really worth byte-compiling such a small file ? If the Emacs maintainer tells me to do it I'll do it. I'd also like him to tell me what to put in the policy manual on this subject. Thanks, Ian.