Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-09-19 Thread Nick Gasson
Hi David, On 16/09/21 21:23 pm, David Bremner wrote: > > Setting user-package-dir to a nonexistent directory also seems to > work. Nick, can you try the dh-elpa version at > https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa ? > I've just tested this and can't reproduce the error any more, thanks!

Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-09-17 Thread David Bremner
Nicholas D Steeves writes: > CCing #989905 (base-files) > >> Setting user-package-dir to a nonexistent directory also seems to >> work. Nick, can you try the dh-elpa version at >> https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa ? Or just apply >> >>

Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-09-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
CCing #989905 (base-files) > Setting user-package-dir to a nonexistent directory also seems to > work. Nick, can you try the dh-elpa version at > https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa ? Or just apply > >

Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-09-16 Thread David Bremner
Nick Gasson writes: > Hi Sean, > > On 03/18/21 18:31 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: >> >> Thank you for the report. Can you test this patch, please? >> >> diff --git a/helper/install b/helper/install >> index 1a2eb8a..af93ee4 100755 >> --- a/helper/install >> +++ b/helper/install >> @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@

Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-03-31 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Fri 19 Mar 2021 at 03:04AM GMT, Nick Gasson wrote: > Hi Sean, > > On 03/18/21 18:31 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: >> >> Thank you for the report. Can you test this patch, please? >> >> diff --git a/helper/install b/helper/install >> index 1a2eb8a..af93ee4 100755 >> --- a/helper/install >>

Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-03-18 Thread Nick Gasson
Hi Sean, On 03/18/21 18:31 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Thank you for the report. Can you test this patch, please? > > diff --git a/helper/install b/helper/install > index 1a2eb8a..af93ee4 100755 > --- a/helper/install > +++ b/helper/install > @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ echo install/${ELPA_DIR}:

Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-03-18 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Nick, On Thu 18 Mar 2021 at 10:25PM +08, Nick Gasson wrote: > The problem seems to be that it picks up the root user's local company > package from package-user-dir in preference to the Debian package in > package-directory-list. > > The patch below overrides package-user-dir to point at

Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-03-18 Thread Nick Gasson
Package: dh-elpa-helper Version: 2.0.8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I got this cryptic error when I installed elpa-company on a machine where the root user had elpa packages already installed under /root/.emacs.d/elpa: Setting up elpa-company (0.9.13-2) ... Install emacsen-common for