Subject: bug#79036: [PATCH] Fix pdb tracking for remote filenames

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:34:19 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Whatever the new function returns, it is good for being used with
>> expand-file-name. Just a granular function.
>> 
>> It is up to the callee (sic :-) to apply expand-file-name if needed.
>
> If they will always call expand-file-name on the result, we might as
> well call it internally and make the usage simpler.

"If". We don't know the future usage pattern. And this bug report has
shown us an example, which doesn't seem to callexpand-file-name (I
mhaven't scanned the whole code, 'tho).

Best regards, Michael.