[ I'm on the list, so no need for a CC ]
"Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> myself (auctex, mailcrypt) and possibly someone other use:
>
> /usr/share/$FLAVOR/site-lisp/$PACKAGE/CompilationLog.gz
>
> since ages. That kind of stuff may prove useful on bug reports
> times, when you could ask the user to send it to you: better keep it
> somewhere; /usr/share/$FLAVOR/site-lisp/$PACKAGE/ seems quite like
> the best place, since it get generated on installation time (i.e.,
> you don't need /var/ at all).
This does indeed seem to be ideal. I'd like to see this in the Emacs
policy. Here's a patch, which also includes a typo fix.
cd ~/tmp/
diff -u -L /usr/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz -L
/home/walters/tmp/debian-emacs-policy /tmp/jka-comxMCSos
/home/walters/tmp/debian-emacs-policy
--- /usr/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz
+++ /home/walters/tmp/debian-emacs-policy
@@ -200,6 +200,14 @@
/etc/<emacs>/site-start.d
/usr/share/<emacs>/site-lisp/<package-name>
+ The site-start.d directory is intended for setting up autoloads
+ and the like for the package.
+
+ Typically, byte-compiled versions of the code are placed in the
+ latter directory. If packages do byte-compilation, they should
+ place the compilation log in
+ /usr/share/<emacs>/site-lisp/<package-name>/CompilationLog.gz.
+
D) Each add-on package must declare relevant dependencies on other
packages (including other add-on packages). Note that add-on
packages should not depend on emacsen-common directly, but rather
@@ -270,7 +278,7 @@
Examples (I've been told that there may be some bugs in these
examples, but I haven't had time to check through them yet. So don't
-take them as gospel at the moment. I suggest that you loook at
+take them as gospel at the moment. I suggest that you look at
existing packages for examples of working code. I will probably be
revamping these soon, but I don't want to do it now since there are
probably about to be some changes that will invalidate some of this):
@@ -345,7 +353,8 @@
cp ${el_path_list} ${elc_dir}
# Byte compile them
- ${FLAVOR} ${byte_compile_options} ${el_path_list}
+ ${FLAVOR} ${byte_compile_options} ${el_path_list} 2>&1 | gzip -9qf
>/usr/share/$FLAVOR/site-lisp/$PACKAGE/CompilationLog.gz
+ echo "
# remove the redundant .el files
# presumes that any .el files in the <flavor> dir are trash.
Diff finished at Wed Jun 27 20:33:39
