On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 02:23:03PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:10:03 +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: > > > The version of aribas in squeeze does not depend on emacsen-common, > > the one in lenny does. Both of these versions install fine, however > > when upgrading a lenny system (wihout any emacsen installed) to > > squeeze we get the following: > > > > Preparing to replace aribas 1.63-2 (using .../aribas_1.64-3_amd64.deb) ... > > ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured. > > ERROR: This is likely a bug in the aribas 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 > > > > Now this might be due to some overly eager check of dpkg. I didn't try to > > investigate this; the change in aribas_1.64-4 fixes this for the squeeze > > release without having to touch dpkg. As soon as we do not have to care > > anymore for that particular upgrade path we can turn the Pre-Depends back > > to Depends. > > > If the old prerm fails, dpkg should call new-prerm failed-upgrade. > Can't the error be handled there?
Possibly. Initially I was assuming that the error was thrown by dpkg, but that is not the case. In fact it is well known issue with emacsen-common: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=153860 (yes it is that old). I'll have closer look at how his can be fixed. -Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
