bug#71902: tex-site.el is not included in auctex 13.3

[Arash Esbati]

Ikumi Keita <ikumi@ikumi.que.jp> writes:

>>>>>> WANG Yizhen <wangyz@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp> writes:
>> Sorry for the inconvenience. I was using straight.el to install
>> auctex,
>
> If I understand correctly, straight.el uses ELPA package for AUCTeX.
> Thus I expect you already have tex-site.el locally.
> 1. Is it sure that you lack tex-site.el? I'm not a straght.el user, but
>    if it installs ELPA packages in standard place, you will find it as
>    ~/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-X.Y.Z/tex-site.el
>    , where X, Y and Z are the version number.
> 2. If you cannot find tex-site.el where straight.el stores the package
>    contents, it means that your installation of AUCTeX is broken. I
>    recommend to delete the broken installation of AUCTeX and to
>    re-install it again. (I don't know how to do that in standard way of
>    straight.el.)
> 3. If that doesn't help yet, then I suspect that your straight.el isn't
>    working correctly. Maybe re-installing straight.el itself helps.
>
>> and as I navigated to the repository directory, there was actually no
>> tex-site.el there.
>
> Yes, that's normal; tex-site.el is generated on the ELPA server and
> bundled into the distribution files when a new AUCTeX ELPA release is
> out.
>
> ...I realized that staright.el manifests itself as[2]
> ,----
> | Packages are cloned as Git (or other) repositories, not as opaque tarballs.
> `----
> Then it really doesn't install tex-site.el?
> ...Hmm, straight.el needs special treatment for AUCTeX like this[3]
> actually?
>
> [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/auctex.git
> [2] https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el?tab=readme-ov-file
> [3] https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el/issues/800

Any update on this?  I think the issue is how to teach straight.el to
deal with AUCTeX, and not the way around.  Or am I missing something?

Best, Arash