From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Anye Li <anye@anyeli.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: debian emacs flavor?
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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 07:32:30 -0300
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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