[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#559197: Stray 50agda.el file left around after package removal causes emacs errors (was: Re: The agda-mode package)

[Iain Lane]

Package: agda-mode
Severity: minor
Version: 2.2.4+dfsg-1
Owner: nad at cs.nott.ac.uk

Hi,

[re: /etc/.../50agda.el being left around after a remove]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 05:28:18PM +0000, Nils Anders Danielsson wrote:
>On 2009-12-02 17:16, Iain Lane wrote:
>>That's the behaviour dictated by Debian policy. All files installed into
>>/etc, which must include emacs site-start files, are required to be
>>modifiable by system administrators. It then follows naturally that
>>`remove' should not remove these configuration files, only `purge'. Hope
>>this explains the situation.
>
>If you do not remove this file you get (non-critical) errors when
>starting Emacs:
>
> Error while loading 50agda: Cannot open load file: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/agda/agda2.el
>
>This error also seems to be printed every time another Emacs package is
>installed.
>
>This error is not exhibited by the Haskell mode, even though
>50haskell-mode.el is not deleted. Perhaps we should follow the approach
>taken by the haskell-mode installer.
>
>A new version of Agda will be released any day now, by the way.

Ah, that's obviously a bug then. I'll forward to the Debian BTS for 
tracking. Thanks.

Iain