Your message dated Thu, 23 Jan 2014 04:22:09 +0000
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and subject line Closing old emacs21 bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #134403,
regarding emacs21-el: package description is not clear
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Package: emacs21-el
Version: 21.4a+1-1
Severity: minor
the package description doesn't clearly explain if this package provides any
functionality or just contains the source code for the .elc files contained in
emacs21-common. the latter is true, so this package is only interesting for
those users who wish to have access to the source code .el files.
package description:
"GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files
GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
This package contains the elisp sources for the convenience of users,
saving space in the main package for small systems."
i know this is a _very_ minor, documentation-related bug, but i've always
installed emacs21-el packages until today when i checked that all the .el files
provided were also provided as .elc files in emacs21-common.
i guess adding something like "The emacs21-common package already contains this
files in precompiled form" or similar would make it clearer.
the attached python2.4 script compares both packages' contents.
best,
yaco\
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (1000, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686-lsm
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO_8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO_8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
#!/usr/bin/python2.4
from commands import getstatusoutput
s, o = getstatusoutput("dpkg -L emacs21-el")
e21el = sorted(o.split('\n'))
s, o = getstatusoutput("dpkg -L emacs21-common")
e21com = sorted(o.split('\n'))
for line in e21el:
if line.endswith('.el'):
if line + 'c' not in e21com:
print "not in emacs21-common: ", line
else:
if line not in e21com:
print "not in emacs21-common:", line
print 'done.'
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it affected emacs21, and the current
version is 23. If you still encounter this problem, please feel free to
re-open it and move it to the appropriate package, or ask me to do it.
Solveig
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