Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to figure out what needs fixing and fix it, but I want to be > careful because some of the emacsen-common stuff is trickier than I > often think at first glance. > > > I wouldn't have a problem with that, it's your choice. Perhaps there is > > a

Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How likely it is that we can get emacsen-common fixed? That package has > > seen a single upload since `oldstable' (woody?) > > Hmm, though there was a long period with no uploads, 1.4.16 was > uploade

Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-21 Thread Rob Browning
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How likely it is that we can get emacsen-common fixed? That package has > seen a single upload since `oldstable' (woody?) Hmm, though there was a long period with no uploads, 1.4.16 was uploaded in January and should be in testing and sarge. -- R

Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-21 Thread Rob Browning
Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know, Rob appears to be active but the package has certainly > seen less attention than it deserves. It should be about to see substantially more. I'd like to figure out what needs fixing and fix it, but I want to be careful because some of

Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-20 Thread Kevin Ryde
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I still add the directory /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el > at the end of the load-path. I like that because it makes `find-func' work (cf bug 157123). > We need to be able to add to the load-path without shadowing files that > may or

Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-20 Thread Romain Francoise
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I'm sure that was done for a valid reason. Yep, but it's hard to tell which... > If I have to resort to the symlink solution, everybody who gets this > problem will have to do the same thing. If emacsen-common gets fixed, > it's fixed for ev

Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1- Perhaps if I don't explicitely add > >/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/ to the load-path, it > >will get added automatically at the tail end, because it is a > >subdirectory o

Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-20 Thread Romain Francoise
Peter Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1- Perhaps if I don't explicitely add >/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/ to the load-path, it >will get added automatically at the tail end, because it is a >subdirectory of /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp ? Nope, it won't be added a

Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Galbraith
Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyone have any bright ideas? > > Create /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el// > directories, populate them with symlinks to only the files we want for > each flavor, and add that to the loa

Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-20 Thread Romain Francoise
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone have any bright ideas? Create /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el// directories, populate them with symlinks to only the files we want for each flavor, and add that to the load-path instead. It isn't pretty, but it should work... --

Re: Bug#329114: Please don't shadow emacs-snapshot packages

2005-09-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The emacs-goodies-el and gnus-bonus-el packages shadow a number of > packages included in emacs-snapshot. This is problematic because some > of these packages are maintained in Emacs CVS and are newer in > emacs-snapshot than in emacs-goodies-el, or m