Package: emacs24
Version: 24.3+1-4
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I had some problems with assorted packages not properly installed so resorted to
purging them (so as to be able to reinstall afresh); one of these was
emacsen-common, so I was forced to also purge emacs23 and emacs24. During the
uninstall, emacs23 and emacs24 failed to uninstall for reasons lost in the long
pile of output from dpkg; when I told aptitude to try again, they failed due to
their prerm scripts invoking /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-remove from
emacsen-common, which had already been uninstalled.
It would seem emacs2[34] need to, in some way, record the dependency on
emacsen-common at uninstall-time, so that emacsen-common doesn't get uninstalled
until packages whose prerm scripts depend on it have gone first ! I don't know
package-management well enough to even be sure apt/dpkg supports this, so this
may need to spawn a feature request there ...
Reinstalling emacsen-common so as to be able to uninstall emacs23 and emacs24
was counter-intuitive, but did at least work ! (The subsequent reinstall of
everything and its dog also went smoothly, to my great relief.)
Eddy.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages emacs24 depends on:
ii emacs24-bin-common 24.3+1-4
ii gconf-service 3.2.6-2
ii libasound2 1.0.27.2-4
ii libatk1.0-0 2.12.0-1
ii libc6 2.18-7
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.16-2
ii libcairo2 1.12.16-2
ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.2-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-5
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-1
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.30.7-1
ii libgif4 4.1.6-11
ii libglib2.0-0 2.40.0-3
ii libgnutls28 3.2.15-1
ii libgomp1 4.9.0-5
ii libgpm2 1.20.4-6.1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.12.2-1
ii libice6 2:1.0.8-2
ii libjpeg8 8d-2
ii libm17n-0 1.6.4-2
ii libmagickcore5 8:6.7.7.10+dfsg-3
ii libmagickwand5 8:6.7.7.10+dfsg-3
ii libotf0 0.9.13-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.3-1
ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-1
ii librsvg2-2 2.40.2-1
ii libselinux1 2.3-1
ii libsm6 2:1.2.1-2
ii libtiff5 4.0.3-8
ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140118-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-2
ii libxft2 2.3.1-2
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.10-1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
emacs24 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages emacs24 suggests:
ii emacs24-common-non-dfsg 24.3+1-1
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