Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > severity 586328 serious > thanks > > Le vendredi 18 juin 2010 à 14:36 +0200, Ludovic Rousseau a écrit : >> Preparing to replace gtk-doc-tools 1.10-1 (using >> .../gtk-doc-tools_1.15-1_all.deb) ... >> ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured. >> ERROR: This is likely a bug in the gtk-doc-tools package, which needs to >> ERROR: add one of the appropriate dependencies. >> ERROR: See /usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz >> ERROR: for details. > > This is a serious WTF in emacsen-common and/or emacs itself. It’s not > appropriate to add a dependency on emacsen-common just for the sake of > including support for an editor. > > The bug (CCed) has been known for 8 years, so I’ll assume it won’t be > fixed and will simply drop emacs support from gtk-doc.
I believe you only need the dependency if you want to byte-compile code, and you can always create a separate, optional foo-el package. As I've said before, while it might be possible to rework things to remove the dependency, the original problem was complicated -- the current arrangement wasn't chosen arbirarily. And in general, if you want to use a compiled language, it's not unreasonable to expect some infrastructure (perl, python, etc.). Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
