Hi Sebastian,
There maybe something wrong -- "It works for me". But I did get one error report already (on the r-sig-debian list, part of the R lists, good resource....) On 24 October 2018 at 16:32, Sebastian Meyer wrote: | Yesterday I updated | | elpa-ess:amd64 (17.11-4~ubuntu16.04.1~ppa1, 18.10-1xenial0) | | from the package repository at | | https://cran.wu.ac.at/bin/linux/ubuntu/xenial | | I now have the same symptoms as described by Zack previosly. | | Running emacs -q, evaluating (require 'ess-site), and checking the value For me it works without (require 'ess-site), in fact it works without a ~/.emacs. | of the variable ess-etc-directory gives me | | /usr/share/ess/etc/ | | However, there is no /usr/share/ess directory on my system. I know. It is an old value from before the elpa conversion. And ... | ess-etc-directory is defined in ess-site.el at | | /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/elpa/ess-18.10/ess-site.el | -> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src/ess-18.10//ess-site.el | | which contains | | > (defvar ess-etc-directory "/usr/share/ess/etc/" | > "Location of the ESS etc/ directory. | > The ESS etc directory stores various auxillary files that are useful | > for ESS, such as icons.") | | This differs from the upstream file, which defines the value as nil, see | https://github.com/emacs-ess/ESS/blob/v18.10/lisp/ess-site.el#L70 | | My knowledge of the Debian packaging mechanisms is rudimentary, but | searching for the /usr/share/ess path I found a corresponding overwrite | in debian/rules, see | https://salsa.debian.org/edd/ess/blob/master/debian/rules#L72 | | Is this intended? ... yes, or at least it once was as it was once needed. If you have a few minutes, I could cook up a new -2 revision without it and email it to you to see if it works. Thanks for taking the time to report this! Dirk | Thanks a lot and best regards, | | Sebastian | | | -- | Dr. Sebastian Meyer | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) | Institut für Medizininformatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (IMBE) -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
