Package: dictionaries-common Version: 0.25.9 Severity: normal Steps to reproduce:
apt-get install dictionaries-common aspell-sv (or some other) apt-get install --reinstall emacs21 This likely results in dpkg failing noisily upon running the emacs-install script for some completely unrelated Emacs package. You won't be able to get your Emacs back unless you first remove dictionaries-common. Then you can install Emacs, and finally put back dictionaries-common if you like. This becomes a real problem when you want to install a new Emacs flavor (something which also provokes this bug). The worst part may be that the error messages give no hint about what is really causing the problem. The problem is that /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el calls (load "/var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el" t) and /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el calls (debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry ...) which causes the autoload for `debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry' to attempt to load the library "debian-ispell". Here's where things break down. When an Emacs flavor is about to be installed, there will obviously be no byte-compiled files in /usr/share/$flavor/site-lisp/dictionaries-common. Yet this is the only directory that 50dictionaries-common.el adds to `load-path' before attempting to load "debian-ispell". As this error prevents Emacs from starting properly, all attempts to *create* the byte-compiled files neccessary to allow Emacs to start will fail. I don't know what would be a good solution in this case, but you may find it helpful to know that I've filed a similar couple of bugs on the dictionary-el and BBDB packages (Bug#308335 and Bug#308336, respectively) --- which also cause this same problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-drlion-8 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on: ii debconf 1.4.49 Debian configuration management sy ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- debconf information: dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value: dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message: dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict: true dictionaries-common/selecting_ispell_wordlist_default: dictionaries-common/default-ispell: dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link: true dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
