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> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:38:38 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> - I wonder what distributions like Debian will say about having a .pdmp
> >>   file in /usr/bin (AFAICT they normally only have executable files in
> >>   there).
> >
> > emacs.pdmp should be installed in data-directory, so it should not be
> > in /usr/bin, AFAIU.  Daniel, please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> I thought data-directory was for architecture independent files. Do
> you mean exec-directory?

Yes, sorry.  And there's a FIXME there to add support for versioned
emacs-X.Y.Z.pdmp files in that case.  IOW, the hardcoded emacs.pdmp
should be only the last resort.