Hi Rob, I've prepared a 0-day NMU for emacsen-common to fix this RC bug, which will be uploaded shortly. The complete changeset, equivalent to Manoj's patch plus a changelog entry, is attached.
Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
diff -Nru /var/tmp/KbeFhI2vbU/emacsen-common-1.4.15/debian/changelog
/var/tmp/uuWYwSYi4O/emacsen-common-1.4.15/debian/changelog
--- /var/tmp/KbeFhI2vbU/emacsen-common-1.4.15/debian/changelog 2002-02-18
09:43:21.000000000 -0800
+++ /var/tmp/uuWYwSYi4O/emacsen-common-1.4.15/debian/changelog 2005-01-26
14:34:57.000000000 -0800
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+emacsen-common (1.4.15-0.1) unstable; urgency=high
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * High-urgency upload for sarge-targetted RC bugfix.
+ * Fix debian-pkg-add-load-path-item to handle nil in load-path, which
+ is a valid emacs path setting; thanks to Manoj Srivastava for the
+ patch (closes: #270388).
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:10:41 -0800
+
emacsen-common (1.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
* make /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian-vars.el a conffile as per Debian
diff -Nru /var/tmp/KbeFhI2vbU/emacsen-common-1.4.15/debian-startup.el
/var/tmp/uuWYwSYi4O/emacsen-common-1.4.15/debian-startup.el
--- /var/tmp/KbeFhI2vbU/emacsen-common-1.4.15/debian-startup.el 2002-02-18
09:12:15.000000000 -0800
+++ /var/tmp/uuWYwSYi4O/emacsen-common-1.4.15/debian-startup.el 2005-01-26
14:26:25.000000000 -0800
@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@
;; Find the last /usr/local/ element.
(while (not (null lp-rest))
- (if (string-match "^/usr/local" (car lp-rest))
+ (if (and
+ (not (null (car lp-rest)))
+ (string-match "^/usr/local" (car lp-rest)))
(setq last-local-pos pos))
(setq pos (+ pos 1))
(setq lp-rest (cdr lp-rest)))
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