On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 08:15:48AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > - apt-get dist-upgrade then does the upgrade from emacs21 in Etch to > > the one in Lenny. Nowhere does it pull in emacs22. > > Install the `emacs' metapackage in etch, this will pull in emacs22 in > lenny.
Sorry for missing this. > > - I then installed emacs22, and faced no problems. > > - I finally also did apt-get --reinstall install emacs-goodies-el, and > > that also caused no problems. > > > > Could you please clarify the particular situation where you can > > reproduce this bug? Maybe I am missing something in my attempt to > > replicate this problem. > > Remove packages providing mail-transport-agent and mailx from the chroot > first. BTW, this problem is not limited to upgrades, it will also > happen in new installs, provided that neither /usr/sbin/sendmail nor > /usr/bin/mail exist. Thanks for the description. Would this be related to #502762, which also occurs for a similar reason? Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah
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