Bug#416410: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#416048: octave2.9-emacsen: use update-alternatives for octave-inf and co

[Pascal A. Dupuis]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 06:24:20PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
[...]
> Second, the order of priority of the three packages providing Octave support
> for Emacsen is currently the following:
> 
>     1) octave2.9-emacsen
>     2) octave2.1-emacsen
>     3) emacs21-el
> 
> The octave2.*-emacsen packages contains the ultimate Emacs Lisp source files
> for the Octave support, meaning that they are preferable than the ones in
> emacs21-el.  Also, the files in octave2.1-emacsen are not newer than the
> ones in octave2.9-emacsen.  So, the priority order above is fortunate
> (although it was not designed to be so).
> 

I agree with you, but I have no idea about the order in which Emacs
considers its subdirs when scanning for its .elc files. So what if two
or three versions of octave-mod.elc are available ? Which one will be
used ? If you're sure that Emacs will consider the right one, I agree
that this bug report is void.

Pascal