David,
One more thing, if I may. :) I noticed that my ~/.emacs now needed as explicit "(require 'ess-site)" added to it. I think that was covered before with the old startup script which has. Is that something we should add to the debian/debian-autoloads.el? Or some other file? Dirk ;; -*-emacs-lisp-*- ;; ;; Emacs startup file for the Debian GNU/Linux ess package ;; ;; Originally contributed by Nils Naumann <[email protected]> ;; Modified by Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> ;; Adapted for dh-make by Jim Van Zandt <[email protected]> ;; The following code fixes bug #440194 - thanks to Peter S Galbraith <[email protected]> ;; skip loading when ;; not ess is fully installed, as this file still exists when the ;; package is removed but not purged. (cond ((not (file-exists-p "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess")) (message "Package ess removed but not purged. Skipping setup.")) ((not (file-exists-p (concat "/usr/share/" (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor) "/site-lisp/ess/ess-site.elc"))) (message "Package ess not fully installed. Skipping setup.")) (t ;; The ess package follows the Debian/GNU Linux 'emacsen' policy and ;; byte-compiles its elisp files for each 'emacs flavor' (emacs19, ;; xemacs19, emacs20, xemacs20...). The compiled code is then ;; installed in a subdirectory of the respective site-lisp directory. ;; We have to add this to the load-path: (debian-pkg-add-load-path-item (concat "/usr/share/" (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor) "/site-lisp/ess")) ;; As ess_5.12-1 we also link the uncompiled code into that directory so no need to load it ;; Put the uncompiled code in the path too ;; (setq load-path (cons (concat "/usr/share/" ;; (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor) ;; "/site-lisp/ess") load-path )) (require 'ess-site) ) ) -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]

