I could reproduce the problem for devscripts-el. Actually it has nothing to do with emacs22. Here are the steps:
- start from a squeeze system with devscripts-el and emacs23 installed (also note that apel is a dependency of devscripts-el) - apt-get -t wheezy install apel - apt-get -t wheezy install emacsen-common - apt-get -t wheezy install devscripts-el devscripts-el/wheezy's postinst crashes. The problem is that apel/wheezy is configured before emacsen-common/wheezy, and this apparently breaks. If the order is changed and emacsen-common/wheezy is configured before apel/wheezy and devscripts-el/wheezy, then everything goes fine. Looking at debian-emacs-policy from emacsen-common 2.0.3, I see that it recommends that addons add a Conflicts: emacsen-common << 2.0.0. First, I am not sure that a versioned conflicts is the right solution, a Breaks may be more appropriate (see http://lintian.debian.org/tags/conflicts-with-version.html ). Second, even though such a Conflicts/Breaks will certainly help, I am not totally sure that it will actually force the configuration of emacsen-common/wheezy before any add-on. Rob: what are your comments on that? If the Breaks: emacsen-common << 2.0.0 is enough, then the solution is to add it to apel and devscripts-el (and actually to *all* emacs add-ons). Cheers, -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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