>>>>> AB == Andreas Beckmann [2017-8-12] AB> On 2017-08-12 02:43, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote: >> I think I found the cause. At installation time the auctex package >> starts in background (per default) the script udpate-auctex-elisp, which >> keeps running for some time after installation writing files in
AB> If you write "per default", it there some way to change that behavior? Running it in foreground is a debconf low priority user choice. It does still take some minutes today on a typical desktop machine (used to be tens of minutes some years ago), so that it runs in background by default. AB> How long does it take? Or could it just be run in the foreground per AB> default? AB> I could just add some sleep for that package in piuparts... wouldn't be AB> the first time. Thanks, thinking about it however I feel that killing running update-auctex-elisp instances if any at package remove time is indeed the right thing to do. I will think some more on the proper way to kill them before uploading a bug fix. -- Pace e bene, Davide
