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[Uday Reddy <u.s.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Cross writes:

> However, not sure if <prefix>/share/emacs/etc is the correct location.
> Not all distros have a <prefix>/share/emacs/etc directory. Ubuntu and
> Debian certainly don't.

The distros decide their own directory structure.  What we put in our
build is only indicative.

The problem we face is that Gnu Emacs sets up a site-lisp directory
for elisp files, but it doesn't set up site-bin, site-info and
site-etc directories for the other kinds of files.  The rationale for
site-xxx naming is so that they can be preserved when you upgrade
Emacs.

> Another problem with using <prefix>/share/emacs/etc is that I don't
> think many users would actually look there for documentation. Much more
> likely to look in /usr/share/doc/vm.

But they go to emacs/etc to find the GNUS-NEWS?

Cheers,
Uday

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Wishlist: Install NEWS in builds
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612222
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Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: Triaged

Bug description:
The VM NEWS file gets lost when distros install VM.  Change the build process so that it gets installed in emacs/etc.  

Ulrich thinks all VM-related files should go into a subdirectory $(prefix)/share/emacs/etc/vm.  Other files that could go into this subdirectory are 

CHANGES
README
TODO

Perhaps the images files should go here too?