Package: gtk-doc-tools Version: 1.10-1 Severity: normal I am upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze. The upgrade does not happen in only one step so I have to run apt-get multiple times.
In one execution I have: $ LANG=C sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: gcj gij The following packages will be upgraded: gtk-doc-tools 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 552 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/529kB of archives. After this operation, 1204kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 276624 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gtk-doc-tools 1.10-1 (using .../gtk-doc-tools_1.15-1_all.deb) ... ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured. ERROR: This is likely a bug in the gtk-doc-tools package, which needs to ERROR: add one of the appropriate dependencies. ERROR: See /usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz ERROR: for details. dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured. ERROR: This is likely a bug in the gtk-doc-tools package, which needs to ERROR: add one of the appropriate dependencies. ERROR: See /usr/share/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz ERROR: for details. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gtk-doc-tools_1.15-1_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gtk-doc-tools_1.15-1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) And I have: $ dpkg -l emacsen-common Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder | État=Non/Installé/fichier-Config/dépaqUeté/échec-conFig/H=semi-installé/W=attend-traitement-déclenchements |/ Err?=(aucune)/besoin Réinstallation (État,Err: majuscule=mauvais) ||/ Nom Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ iU emacsen-common 1.4.19 Common facilities for all emacsen So emacsen-common is installed but not yet configured. The short term "solution" is to configure emacsen-common first using: $ sudo apt-get install -f Then emacsen-common is then configured and can be used. And the installation of gtk-doc-tools is now successful. $ LANG=C sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: gcj gij The following packages will be upgraded: gtk-doc-tools 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/529kB of archives. After this operation, 1204kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 276624 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gtk-doc-tools 1.10-1 (using .../gtk-doc-tools_1.15-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gtk-doc-tools ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up gtk-doc-tools (1.15-1) ... I guess gtk-doc-tools (or one of its dependency) needs a Pre-Depends: emacsen-common -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gtk-doc-tools depends on: ii docbook-dsssl 1.79-6 modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets, ii docbook-to-man 1:2.0.0-28 converter from DocBook SGML into r ii docbook-xml 4.5-7 standard XML documentation system ii docbook-xsl 1.75.2+dfsg-5 stylesheets for processing DocBook ii gnome-common 2.28.0-1 common scripts and macros to devel ii jade 1.2.1-47 James Clark's DSSSL Engine ii perl 5.10.1-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii python 2.5.4-9 An interactive high-level object-o ii xsltproc 1.1.26-3 XSLT command line processor Versions of packages gtk-doc-tools recommends: ii pkg-config 0.25-1 manage compile and link flags for gtk-doc-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org