reopen 910021 retitle 910021 GNU wishes Debian not split out .els anymore thanks
>>>>> "GM" == Glenn Morris <r...@gnu.org> writes: GM> Emacs does not support installing without its .el files and makes no GM> provision for it. It's something downstream distributions added back GM> when disk space was an issue (I guess?). They get to keep all the pieces GM> from the resulting breakage. :) GM> Personally I think it should this separation should just go away. GM> PS Red Hat got rid of this split years ago, and I would encourage Debian GM> to follow suit; ref https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151652