debian emacs flavor?

debian emacs flavor?

[Anye Li]

Hi,

I'm trying to install the notmuch-emacs debian package that I built on
raspbian from the latest in git today, and upon installation I run into
an error message from ln complaining about source and destination files
being the same.  It seems to come from
debian/notmuch-emacs.emacsen-install (installed to
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/notmuch-emacs) which takes
$FLAVOR as an argument, and in my case the $FLAVOR is being passed in as
"emacs" instead of "emacs23" for some reason.  Unfortunately, I don't
really understand how Debian's package system works and I can't for the
life of me figure out how this script is called and where the flavor
detection happens.  Could somebody knowledgable please clue me in?

Thanks
Anye

Re: debian emacs flavor?

[David Bremner]

Anye Li <anye@anyeli.org> writes:

> I'm trying to install the notmuch-emacs debian package that I built on
> raspbian from the latest in git today, and upon installation I run into
> an error message from ln complaining about source and destination files
> being the same.  It seems to come from
> debian/notmuch-emacs.emacsen-install (installed to
> /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/notmuch-emacs) which takes
> $FLAVOR as an argument, and in my case the $FLAVOR is being passed in as
> "emacs" instead of "emacs23" for some reason.  Unfortunately, I don't
> really understand how Debian's package system works and I can't for the
> life of me figure out how this script is called and where the flavor
> detection happens.  Could somebody knowledgable please clue me in?

Hi Anye;

I don't think that error message is fatal. The flavour "emacs" is for
the source files (un-bytecompiled) as far as I recall. In any case the
same message is received on Debian, so it isn't raspian specific.

d

Re: debian emacs flavor?

[David Bremner]

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

>
> Hi Anye;
>
> I don't think that error message is fatal. The flavour "emacs" is for
> the source files (un-bytecompiled) as far as I recall. In any case the
> same message is received on Debian, so it isn't raspian specific.
>

As a followup, if you try the current 'release' branch, that message
should be gone.

d