reassign 124221 emacsen-common
merge 124221 193575
thanks

On 2001-12-16 20:06 +0100, Matt Hodges wrote:

> Package: emacs21
> Version: 21.1-7
> Severity: normal
>
> Emacs currently cannot locate the source of some packages which
> install files under /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp. This is annoying
> because the hyperlinks to source files in *Help* buffers don't work
> for these packages.

[snip]

> One solution is to add a subdirs.el file in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
> and it should be possible to get this to work with different flavours
> of Emacs, if necessary; something for the emacsen-common package?

If such a subdirs.el is to be provided, it has to be in the
emacsen-common package, indeed.  See #193575.

> Alternatively, the normal-top-level-add-subdirs-to-load-path code
> above seems to work correctly, and could be added to a startup file.
>
> Has this been discussed already? Should bug reports be filed against
> any packages which don't explicitly take care of this issue?

Apparently, that's the way to go.

Cheers,
       Sven



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