Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-09-19 Thread Nick Gasson
Hi David, On 16/09/21 21:23 pm, David Bremner wrote: > > Setting user-package-dir to a nonexistent directory also seems to > work. Nick, can you try the dh-elpa version at > https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/dh-elpa ? > I've just tested this and can't reproduce the error any more, thanks! -

Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-03-18 Thread Nick Gasson
Hi Sean, On 03/18/21 18:31 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Thank you for the report. Can you test this patch, please? > > diff --git a/helper/install b/helper/install > index 1a2eb8a..af93ee4 100755 > --- a/helper/install > +++ b/helper/install > @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ echo install/${ELPA_DIR}: byte-compi

Bug#985459: dh-elpa: install error when root user has packages under /root/.emacs.d/elpa

2021-03-18 Thread Nick Gasson
Package: dh-elpa-helper Version: 2.0.8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I got this cryptic error when I installed elpa-company on a machine where the root user had elpa packages already installed under /root/.emacs.d/elpa: Setting up elpa-company (0.9.13-2) ... Install emacsen-common for emacs