emacs fan help with packaging .el

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/1/4 Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat.com>:
>>>>>> "Chitlesh" == Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh.goorah at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Chitlesh> I have never used emacs before.
>
> It is never too late :-)
>
> Chitlesh> http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/RPMS/dinotrace.spec
>
> I'm curious about the byte-compilation step in this spec file.  Emacs
> .elc files are not portable across Emacs versions; so won't this do
> the wrong thing depending on the emacs alternatives setting?  It seems
> to me that either Emacs or XEmacs users will be left out.

An emacs-foo subpackages target GNU Emacs specifically, so that's ok.
Chitlesh could also create an xemacs subpackage if he chooses to.