Package: gnu-smalltalk-el
Version: 3.2.5-1
Severity: grave
Tags: patch
Dear maintainer,
while upgrading emacs24 from 24.5+1-2 to 24.5+1-3 today, the postinstall
script failed with the following output:
,----
| [...]
| Install gnu-smalltalk-el for emacs24
| install/gnu-smalltalk-el: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs24
| cp: cannot create symbolic link ‘./gst-mode.el’ to
‘../../../emacs/site-lisp/gnu-smalltalk-el/gst-mode.el’: File exists
| cp: cannot create symbolic link ‘./smalltalk-mode.el’ to
‘../../../emacs/site-lisp/gnu-smalltalk-el/smalltalk-mode.el’: File exists
| ERROR: install script from gnu-smalltalk-el package failed
| dpkg: error while cleaning up:
| subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
`----
The cause of the error lies in line 28 of
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/gnu-smalltalk-el:
Replacing
cp -s ../../../emacs/site-lisp/${PACKAGE}/*.el .
with
cp -sf ../../../emacs/site-lisp/${PACKAGE}/*.el .
fixed the issue.
Cheers,
-Hilko
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnu-smalltalk-el depends on:
ii emacs 46.1
ih emacs24 [emacsen] 24.5+1-2
ii emacsen-common 2.0.8
gnu-smalltalk-el recommends no packages.
gnu-smalltalk-el suggests no packages.
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