** Description changed: The version of emacs21 that is currently in feisty (21.4a+1-1ubuntu1) has been crippled by Debian, and should be uncrippled in Ubuntu. Namely: info fiiles that Emacs users depend on for daily use have been removed, breaking the built-in documentation-viewing functions as well as many other links to documentation in the Customize interface. Additionally, several files (one of which is /usr/share/emacs/21.4/etc /THE-GNU-PROJECT) need to be restored in order to comply with the implicit wishes of the Emacs developers. There are several possible ways of fixing this. One is to make the emacs21 package depend on (*not* just suggest or recommend) emacs21-bin- common-non-dfsg, and ensure that the latter package installs the info files and the removed files from /etc in the proper place, removing any unacceptable placeholders that have been placed there by Debian (see, for example, /usr/share/emacs/21.4/etc/THE-GNU-PROJECT.dfsg). Another acceptable way of solving this would be to move the files out of emacs21-bin-common-non-dfsg and back into the emacs21 package. Since Ubuntu allows the distribution of GFDL'd documents and non-source- - code position statements, this change poses no problems. + code position statements, the changes I suggest here pose no problems.
-- Revert Debian's removal of the Emacs info files and several other files https://launchpad.net/bugs/73840 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
