Control: tag -1 unreproducible
Control: severity -1 important

Ron Murray <[email protected]> writes:


> An emacs update to testing arrived this morning, and in
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp, I found this:
>
>> root:~# ll /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian*
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   38 Jun 10 11:22 
>> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el -> 
>> ../../emacsen-common/debian-startup.el
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Jun 10 11:22 
>> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
>
> Looks like the two were installed at the same time, but the second one
> is bogus, and it prevents the real one from being loaded.
>
> Soled by renaming the bogus file (debian-startup.elc).

The .elc files are generated at install time, not actually shipped in
the package.
It would be helpful to know about any messages during the install of
emacsen-common, and whether you can duplicate the problem by
re-installing the package.

BTW, do you have lots of disk space in /usr? What filesystem is it?

d

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