Following up on a thread from yesteryear (and then some), I would like to suggest that maybe the byte compilation logs should not be saved in a temp file at all. It may have been appropriate when dpkg was the primary .deb installation front end, but these days, with Synaptic and Apport, most people don't see the terminal output from dpkg at all, and those who do might actually want to see what went wrong right away, rather than find a file in /tmp with an awkward name and read it (provided they even notice the problem when it happens, rather than later, when the file might have been erased).
This would require the postinst of the various emacsen packages to be modified. Perhaps it would be enough at this point to fix it only in emacs23 and/or emacsen-common, and expect others to follow suit later. Anyway, my suggestion would be something along the following lines: 0. Create the log file like before, but: 1. If running under Synaptic (or something like that), default to printing the file after displaying the warning message, so that the byte compilation log is included in /var/log/apt/term.log 2. Create a mechanism for overriding this, so that you can manually select to print the byte compilation log always / never / when there is a problem regardless of whether you are running under Synaptic (or whatever) I meant to file a bug suggesting this, but decided it might warrant some discussion here on the list first. For one thing, do you think this should be filed against Ubuntu or against Debian? I guess upstreaming to Debian would be the default choice but they don't have a lot of users with Apport so they might not perceive this as a problem which needs to be solved. FWIW thanks to siretart for fixing the old bug #413110 -- however, I have never seen a bug report which actually included the byte compilation logs. I've been meaning to set up a test case to figure out what went wrong but then if problems from the byte compilation logs are not obscurely hidden in a temporary file, perhaps it could just be backed out. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. /* era */ -- If this were a real .signature, it would suck less. Well, maybe not. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
