reassign 391778 xemacs21-mule retitle 391778 xemacs21-mule: postinst fails if xemacs21-support is not yet configured severity 391778 serious thanks
I'm reassigning Bug#391778 from apel to xemacs21-mule. On October 9, 2006 at 1:07PM +0200, allomber (at math.u-bordeaux.fr) wrote: > You can reproduce it with > debootstrap, chroot, and > apt-get update && apt-get install xemacs21 mell > > Please find the resulting log. > > My guess is that xemacs21 is configured after apel is unpacked but > before it is configured, and install/apel does not cope with apel > not being configured. You are right. I've tried skipping byte-compilation of apel if xemacs21 seems not to be configured. However a similar error is appeared, as follows: ---- # apt-get install xemacs21 mell [...] Setting up xemacs21-mulesupport (2006.05.10-1) ... Setting up perl-modules (5.8.8-6.1) ... Setting up perl (5.8.8-6.1) ... Setting up xemacs21-basesupport (2006.05.10-1) ... Setting up xemacs21-mule (21.4.19-1) ... emacs-install xemacs21 apel: Skipped: xemacs21 is not yet configured emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor xemacs21 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for xemacs21 WARNING: Couldn't find obvious defaults for: data-directory mule-lisp-directory lisp-directory Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable, /usr/bin/xemacs21 is in a strange place?Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup... Loading 00debian-vars... No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default... ^GSymbol's function definition is void: batch-byte-compile xemacs exiting . [...] ---- It seems that the error is occured in xemacs21-mule's postinst, and byte-compilation fails even emacsen-common. I've noticed that xemacs21, xemacs21-bin and xemacs21-support are not configured before xemacs21-mule's postinst, and found required code in `/var/lib/dpkg/info/xemacs21-support.postinst'. xemacs21 maintainer, please contain the code of xemacs21-support.postinst (making symlinks for /usr/lib/xemacs-*) in xemacs21-mule.postinst, xemacs21-nomule.postinst, etc. (or use `Pre-Depends: xemacs21-support', but you should not specify `Pre-Depends' before this has been discussed on the `debian-devel' mailing list and a consensus about doing that has been reached.) Thanks, -- Tatsuya Kinoshita
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