Package: emacsen-common Version: 1.4.16 Severity: important Currently when an emacs is installed, it executes
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/<pkg> <flavor> <others> for each <pkg> it finds. However, when emacs is installed in one dpkg run together with an add-on package, and this add-on package has an additional dependency, this will in many cases fail. For example, auctex Depends: gs-gpl | gs, and uses gs in its install script. Thus, if I say apt-get install emacs21 auctex then emacs21 will sometimes be configured before gs-gpl is configured, and configuring emacs will fail because /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/auctex fails. One possible solution would be to require that every package register somewhere (probably best by touching some file named after it) that it has once been configured successfully for any emacs. If an emacs main package is installed, it will execute the install scripts only for packages which have already registered themselves. Otherwise running the install script is left to those packages' postinst script. Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages emacsen-common depends on: ii bsdmainutils 6.0.17 collection of more utilities from -- no debconf information -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
