Hi, I was investigating bug #428239 which is about dpkg warnings when removing emacs21 (or some other emacs flavour) but some Emacs addon packages still have init files in /etc/emacs-flavour/site-start.d/. Because those files are conffiles, those should not be removed by emacsen.remove if I'm interpreting Debian Policy (10.7.3), but instead those files should be removed only when add-on package is purged. This is also how at least gnus and psgml-mode packages handle those files.
This however leads to some odd situations: amount of conffiles of Emacs add-on actually depends on the order of Emacs flavours installed and removed. So this is a bit odd, and leads to dpkg giving warnings when Emacs flavour is removed. So my question is that am I interpreting Debian Policy and Emacs sub-policy correctly, and is it so that there is no way to get rid of those warnings? Or is there some way of handling this so that for example state and amount of conffiles is equal no matter what emacs flavours has been installed and removed? P.S. I am still looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.11+v0.10.dfsg-1 of my package "gnus". The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnus - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnus/gnus_5.11+v0.10.dfsg-1.dsc -- Tommi Vainikainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-emacsen-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
