Bug#594750: ess: debian-pkg-add-load-path-item

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 August 2010 at 11:28, Kevin Ryde wrote:
| Package: ess
| Version: 5.11-1
| Severity: minor
| File: /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ess.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 50ess.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 /usr/local has precedence.

Thanks for the heads-up. 

Grep'ing in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ on my system, I see 

  (debian-pkg-add-load-path-item (concat "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess"))

instead of

  (setq load-path (cons  (concat "/usr/share/"
				 (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor)
				 "/site-lisp/ess") load-path ))

as a possible change. Would that work?  Or should it be like css-mode and do
both:

  (debian-pkg-add-load-path-item "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess")

  (debian-pkg-add-load-path-item (concat "/usr/share/"
                                       (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor)
                                       "/site-lisp/ess"))

Can you advise?  I actually don't really write elisp...

Dirk

| 
| 
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: squeeze/sid
|   APT prefers unstable
|   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
| Architecture: i386 (i686)
| 
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486
| Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
| 
| Versions of packages ess depends on:
| ii  dpkg                      1.15.8.2       Debian package management system
| ii  emacs21 [emacsen]         21.4a+1-5.7    The GNU Emacs editor
| ii  emacs22-gtk [emacsen]     22.3+1-1.2     The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK use
| ii  emacs23 [emacsen]         23.2+1-2       The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ us
| ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
| ii  xemacs21-mule [emacsen]   21.4.22-3      highly customizable text editor --
| 
| ess recommends no packages.
| 
| Versions of packages ess suggests:
| pn  pspp                          <none>     (no description available)
| pn  r-base | r-base-core          <none>     (no description available)
| pn  xlispstat                     <none>     (no description available)
| 
| -- no debconf information
| 
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Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com