I just noticed the use of the debian-emacs-flavor symbol in auctex's /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tex-site.el file.
I'm wondering if debian-emacs-policy should forbid the use of debian-emacs-flavor outside of the /etc/emacs* directories, or rather inside of directories usually visible by unpackaged Emacsen (i.e setup whatever variable you want using debian-emacs-flavor in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50somefile.el, and use that variable later). The problem is that I startup (a non-packaged) emacs-21 and it barfs on this. Altenatively, should I simply setup my emacs21 to load debian-startup.el and call `(debian-startup 'emacs)` ? What do others do? Peter
