Package: emacs-goodies-el Version: 40.0 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Installation of emacs-goodies-el is unsuccessful and produces the following error: # apt install emacs-goodies-el [...] The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs-goodies-el 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 231 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/96.4 kB of archives. After this operation, 265 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package emacs-goodies-el. (Reading database ... 843963 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../emacs-goodies-el_40.0_all.deb ... Unpacking emacs-goodies-el (40.0) ... Processing triggers for install-info (6.5.0.dfsg.1-4) ... Setting up emacs-goodies-el (40.0) ... Install emacsen-common for emacs25 emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs25 Install emacs-goodies-el for emacs25 install/emacs-goodies-el: Handling emacs25, logged in /tmp/elc_nHni8d.log Building autoloads for emacs25 in /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el ERROR: install script from emacs-goodies-el package failed dpkg: error processing package emacs-goodies-el (--configure): installed emacs-goodies-el package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs-goodies-el E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The log file contains the following: root@wzab:~# cat /tmp/elc_nHni8d.log emacs25 -batch --no-site-file --multibyte --eval (setq load-path (cons "." load-path)) -l autoload --eval (setq generated-autoload-file (expand-file-name "emacs-goodies-loaddefs.el")) --eval (setq make-backup-files nil) -f batch-update-autoloads . Warning (initialization): Ignoring obsolete arg --multibyte align-string.el:0:0: error: file-error: (Opening input file No such file or directory /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/align-string.el) The lacking file is a symlink: root@wzab:~# ls -lr /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/align-string.el lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 Aug 1 11:28 /usr/share/emacs25/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/align-string.el -> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/align-string.el But the target file does not exist: root@wzab:~# ls /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/align-string.el ls: cannot access '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/align-string.el': No such file or directory Even though it is reported by apt-file: root@wzab:~# apt-file search align-string.el emacs-goodies-el: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el/align-string.el With best regards, Wojciech Zabolotny -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el depends on: ii bash 4.4.18-3.1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 ii emacs 47.0 ii emacs25 [emacsen] 25.2+1-6+b3 ii emacsen-common 2.0.8 ii install-info 6.5.0.dfsg.1-4 Versions of packages emacs-goodies-el recommends: ii elpa-apache-mode 2.1+4.g97bf66c-2 ii elpa-bar-cursor 2.0-1 pn elpa-bm <none> ii elpa-boxquote 2.1-2 ii elpa-browse-kill-ring 2.0.0-1 ii elpa-csv-mode 1.7-1 ii elpa-debian-el 37.6 ii elpa-devscripts 40.1 ii elpa-diminish 0.45-2 ii elpa-dpkg-dev-el 37.4 ii elpa-eproject 1.5+git20180312.068218d-1 ii elpa-graphviz-dot-mode 0.4+41+gc456a2b-1 ii elpa-htmlize 1.53-1 ii elpa-initsplit 1.8+3+gc941d43-1 ii elpa-markdown-mode 2.3+154-1 ii elpa-pod-mode 1.03-1 ii elpa-session 2.4b-1 ii elpa-tabbar 2.2-1 ii perl-doc 5.26.2-7 ii wget 1.19.5-1 emacs-goodies-el suggests no packages. -- no debconf information