Bug#882042: ess: nil ess-etc-directory causing error upon Emacs startup

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Martin et al,

On 17 November 2017 at 15:03, Brian P Flaherty wrote:
| Package: ess
| Version: 17.11-1
| Severity: normal
| 
| Dear Maintainer,
| 
| Upon upgrading ess from 16.10-1 to 17.11-1, I now get this error everytime I start emacs:
| 
| Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ess.el (source)...
| ERROR:ess-site.el:ess-etc-directory
| Relative to ess-lisp-directory, one of the following must exist:
| ../etc/ess, ../etc, ../../etc/ess or ./etc

Any idea?

I used the "new" tarballs.

Dirk

| 
| I'm not sure if this is a new variable or if something else has changed. 
| Just thought I'd bring this up, in case it is important or an easy fix. It is only
| an inconvenience to me.
| 
| Thank you!
| 
| 
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: buster/sid
|   APT prefers unstable
|   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
| Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
| Foreign Architectures: i386
| 
| Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
| Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
| Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
| 
| Versions of packages ess depends on:
| ii  dpkg            1.19.0.4
| ii  emacsen-common  2.0.8
| ii  install-info    6.5.0.dfsg.1-1
| 
| Versions of packages ess recommends:
| ii  r-base-core  3.4.2-2
| 
| Versions of packages ess suggests:
| pn  jags       <none>
| pn  julia      <none>
| pn  pspp       <none>
| pn  xlispstat  <none>
| 
| -- no debconf information

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