ess (17.11-5) unstable; urgency=medium
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After many years as standard package, 'ess' has (as of August 2018) been
converted to be an ELPA-compatible package 'elpa-ess'.

You may now need to add a manual

   (require 'ess-site)

to the top of your '.emacs' file as the package no longer supplies a
common startup file. Alternatively, use

   (package-initialize)

to initialize this (and other) 'packages' (in the Emacs sense). We
also added it to the autoloads file.

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>, Fri, 24 Aug 2018 07:06:19 -0500