Debian bug report logs - #1148
w3-el doesn't clean up properly

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Subject: Bug#1148: w3-el doesn't clean up properly

I'm marking this as done with w3-el 2.2.22.

I'm counting on two things here: it's been a while since the original
problem occurred.  And, the current emacs release seems to be very
happy with site-start.el in /etc rather than in
/usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp

Also, for a while w3-el packages would attempt to clean up the damage
-- however, with recent changes in debian, this has proved far more
a problem than a cure.

-- 
Raul

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Subject: Re: Bug#1148: w3-el doesn't clean up properly

Version 2.2.6-1 of w3-el has a temporary workaround for this problem.
It will fail (perhaps badly) for certain cases where a person has
severely reconfigured the softlinks leading to site-start.el, but it
should do the right thing for a standard debian installation.

I'm leaving this bug open until I can get a real solution in place.

-- 
Raul Miller

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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: Re: Bug#1148: w3-el doesn't clean up properly

Richard Kettlewell writes ("Bug#1148: w3-el doesn't clean up properly"):
> [...]
> If /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el is a symlink to
> /etc/site-start.el - which is how emacs-19.28-3 sets things up - then
> then w3-el's postrm script replaces it with an ordinary file:

What the maintainer scripts should do here is keep dereferencing the
file until they get a real file rather than a symlink, so that they
can then generate an appropriate ~ file and move it in place.

There doesn't seem to be a shell utility to do this - am I mistaken ?

If not I can easily make one in the dpkg package; dpkg already has the
code to do this for configuration files, so it wouldn't be too much
extra work.

If so, what should the program be called ?

Ian.

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From: richard@elmail.co.uk (Richard Kettlewell)
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Subject: w3-el doesn't clean up properly

Package: w3-el
Version: 2.2.0-1

If /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el is a symlink to
/etc/site-start.el - which is how emacs-19.28-3 sets things up - then
then w3-el's postrm script replaces it with an ordinary file:

#!/bin/sh
#

# remove autoloads from the emacs site-start file
f1=/usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el
l1='(if (file-exists-p "/usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/w3-init.el") (load "w3-init"))'
grep -v "^$l1$" $f1 >$f1~ 
mv $f1~ $f1
exit 0

This rather screws things up from the point of view of packages which
use /etc/site-start.el, e.g. auctex and the one I was preparing when I
discovered this :-).  Obviously, it doesn't matter where the script
looks as long as it can cope with symlinks.

ttfn/rjk