Bug#671551: ecasound-el: debian-pkg-add-load-path-item

[Alessandro Ghedini]

tags 671551 moreinfo
kthxbye

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 09:15:47AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> Package: ecasound-el
> Version: 2.8.1-6
> Severity: minor
> File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ecasound-el.el
> 
> /usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz section 9 asks lisp
> add-ons to add directories with `debian-pkg-add-load-path-item' rather
> than directly modifying `load-path' the way 50ecasound-el.el does.
> 
> I believe debian-pkg-add-load-path-item is available as of "sarge"
> emacsen-common 1.4.14 of June 2002.  It aims to keep /usr/local ahead of
> packaged lisp dirs so that anything in /usr/local has precedence.
> 
> I notice too 50ecasound-el.el uses (symbol-name flavor) to make the
> path.  I think `flavor' is only a dynamic binding from the site-start.d
> running code whereas `debian-emacs-flavor' is the documented variable.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you are saying. Could you please point me to
a package that uses debian-pkg-add-load-path-item? I've looked into a few but
all of them use load-path in their startup scripts.

Cheers

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