I managed to solve this problem by the following link: (parts of a mail sent Dec 3 to this list. I don't know if this problem formally has been reported as a bug.)
>Upgrading from slink emacs or xemacs resulted in an unfinished >configure phase. This was solved by: >ln -s /usr/share/dpkg/site-lisp/debian-changelog-mode.el >/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev/ >This .el file is from the dpkg-dev package. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
