From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,
Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: shipping elisp for notmuch in elpa-notmuch debian package
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 10:15:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e3c6s0o.fsf@fifthhorseman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muc8qmkl.fsf@tethera.net>
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On Wed 2019-12-04 08:53:14 -0400, David Bremner wrote:
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>> rstdoc.el
>> make-deps.el
>> dir
>
> the first two are build tools.
if they're build tools then we don't need to ship them with
elpa-notmuch, right?
> The latter is needed by the info files.
needed how? what functionality is missing? with the current
elpa-notmuch installed, if i do "M-x info" i see a bunch of notmuch
entries that show up under a big "Miscellaneous" heading, which appears
to be the contents of this /dir file. If the purpose of it is just
filing it under "Miscellaneous" that doesn't seem like much of a filing
operation :P
>> The package also ships a bunch of *.info files in that elpa
>> module-specific directory, rather than shipping them in the typical
>> /usr/share/info/ location. These info files appear to be translations
>> of the manpages or other basic notmuch documentation. Is there a reason
>> to ship them in the elpa-specific directory?
>
> It makes the elpa (make elpa) package self contained (with docs).
> package.el knows how to install info files, so the debian-specific
> tooling is not needed.
sure, but if i "info notmuch" right now in debian, even with
elpa-notmuch installed, i just get info redisplaying the notmuch(1)
manpage, rather than rendering the info file which exists. Is that the
goal?
>> I note that notmuch-pkg.el is installed in elpa-notmuch, but it is *not*
>> in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp when installed via the standard "make
>> install". i don't know enough about how that installation is supposed
>> to work, but if it's supposed to drop in a notmuch-pkg.el, then
>> something needs fixing in the baseline "make install".
>
> It's metadata for the elpa (package.el) package. Not sure it is helpful
> in the standard install, but I don't really use the standard install, so
> I'm open to ideas
OK, i'm obviously used to using the elpa package too, so i don't know
how this would affect the "standard install", so i'm happy to drop this
point of my questioning unless someone who uses the standard install
wants to speak up.
--dkg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-04 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-04 8:35 shipping elisp for notmuch in elpa-notmuch debian package Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-12-04 12:53 ` David Bremner
2019-12-04 15:15 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor [this message]
2019-12-04 19:29 ` David Bremner
2019-12-06 21:20 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-12-07 14:32 ` David Bremner
2019-12-09 18:09 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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