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Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade

From	David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade
Date	2022-09-13 02:10 +0200
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>
> Of course, another way to fix this is to actually fix the original
> problem where the wrong directory (i.e. `~$USER/.emacs.d` instead of
> `$HOME/.emacs.d`) is chosen.  This original problem affects other
> circumstances where Emacs will write to the `.emacs.d` directory so it
> would be good to fix it more generally.
>

I think we probably want both, at least in Debian. Even if that is
fixed, emacs would then write into some user's (possibly root's) home
directory during package installation. That seems like bug to me.

d

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Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-08-19 20:50 +0200
  Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-08-22 01:40 +0200
    Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> - 2022-08-22 11:30 +0200
  Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> - 2022-08-22 21:30 +0200
  Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> - 2022-08-23 06:30 +0200
    Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-08-23 06:50 +0200
      Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> - 2022-08-23 07:10 +0200
  Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> - 2022-08-23 11:10 +0200
  Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-08-23 16:40 +0200
    Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> - 2022-08-24 04:00 +0200
      Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-08-24 04:10 +0200
        Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> - 2022-08-24 05:10 +0200
          Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-08-24 14:00 +0200
          Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> - 2022-09-12 00:20 +0200
            Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-09-12 03:40 +0200
              Bug#1017739: emacs-lucid cannot start after upgrade David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> - 2022-09-13 02:10 +0200

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