[Bug 980188] [NEW] Exuberant ctags should not register itself as highest priority alternative for etags

[Edward Z. Yang]

Public bug reported:

Currently, when installed, ctags adds itself as the highest priority
alternative for the 'etags' binary, used for the generation of Emacs
style tags files, even higher than the version provided by Emacs. I
argue that this is a bug, in fact, the *Emacs* version of the binary
should be treated as highest priority. It is, after all, the Emacs tags
format... The choice of priority here also has important implications
for scripts which rely on the Emacs binary's flags format, which differs
in an incompatible way from Exuberant Ctag's argument style.

** Affects: exuberant-ctags (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  Exuberant ctags should not register itself as highest priority
  alternative for etags

Status in “exuberant-ctags” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently, when installed, ctags adds itself as the highest priority
  alternative for the 'etags' binary, used for the generation of Emacs
  style tags files, even higher than the version provided by Emacs. I
  argue that this is a bug, in fact, the *Emacs* version of the binary
  should be treated as highest priority. It is, after all, the Emacs
  tags format... The choice of priority here also has important
  implications for scripts which rely on the Emacs binary's flags
  format, which differs in an incompatible way from Exuberant Ctag's
  argument style.

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