On 25 October 2015 at 15:43, Hilko Bengen wrote: | Package: ess | Version: 15.09-1 | Severity: grave | Tags: patch | | While upgrading emacs24 from 24.5+1-2 to 24.5+1-3 today, the | installation paused and I got the the following prompt:
C'mon now 2 of 2. It is mostly to signal that I consider myself as a placeholder maintainer. I don't write elisp, but I use ESS a lot so I offered to help. The list is fine, and watched by a human. Dirk | | ,---- | | Install ess for emacs24 | | install/notmuch: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs24 | | install/notmuch: byte-compiling for emacs24 | | gzip: Install.log.gz already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? | `---- | | Pressing n caused the installation to fail: | | ,---- | | gzip: Install.log.gz already exists; do you wish to overwrite (y or n)? n | | not overwritten | | ERROR: install script from ess package failed | | dpkg: error while cleaning up: | | subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 | `---- | | /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ess wants to gzip its | install log which leads to the above prompt if the gzipped version | already exists, a violation of Debian Policy 3.9.1. "Prompting in | maintainer scripts". | | Adding a simple "-f" when invoking gzip fixes this. | | Cheers, | -Hilko | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: stretch/sid | APT prefers unstable | APT policy: (500, 'unstable') | Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) | Foreign Architectures: i386 | | Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash | Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) | | Versions of packages ess depends on: | ii dpkg 1.18.3 | ii emacsen-common 2.0.8 | ii install-info 6.0.0.dfsg.1-3 | | Versions of packages ess recommends: | ii r-base-core 3.2.2-1 | | Versions of packages ess suggests: | pn jags <none> | pn julia <none> | pn pspp <none> | pn xlispstat <none> | | -- no debconf information | | _______________________________________________ | ESS-Debian mailing list | ess-deb...@r-project.org | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-debian -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
