[ESS-bugs] Fwd: Bug#824527: ess (16.04-1) fails to install

[Martin Maechler]

Only Kurt and Steven and I are on ess-debian at ..,   hence I'm forwarding this.

The bad news is that I'm currently no longer "easily" on ubuntu/debian
and so I forgot to test emacs23.

In the past, I have been the one warning you guys when changes stopped
working in emacs 23.

What do you think?  Should we try to get it working there?
Martin


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
Date: Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: Bug#824527: ess (16.04-1) fails to install
To: 824527-forwarded at bugs.debian.org
Cc: ess-debian <ess-debian at r-project.org>, Eric Chassande-Mottin
<echassandemottin at gmail.com>



Martin et al,

On 17 May 2016 at 09:15, Eric Chassande-Mottin wrote:
| Package: ess
| Version: 16.04-1
| Severity: important
|
| Dear Maintainer,
|
| the update of ess package leads to the following error.
|
| Best,
| E.
|
|
| Setting up ess (16.04-1) ...
| Install emacsen-common for emacs23
| emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs23
| Wrote /etc/emacs23/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
| Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
| Install emacsen-common for emacs24
| emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs24
| Wrote /etc/emacs24/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
| Wrote /usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
| Install ess for emacs23
| install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs23
| ERROR: install script from ess package failed
| dpkg: error processing package ess (--configure):
|  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I can confirm the bug report by Eric, I saw it too -- and just uninstalled
emacs23 on the affected system.

Something more robust would be nice.  Can you take a look and see why/how it
fails?  Is there elisp code requiring emacs24?

In that case I could specify it in the package metadata and it simply would
not install for emacs23 (but that is a blunt tool...)

Dirk


| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: stretch/sid
|   APT prefers testing
|   APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (100, 'stable')
| Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
| Foreign Architectures: i386
|
| Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
| Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
| Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
|
| Versions of packages ess depends on:
| ii  dpkg            1.18.7
| ii  emacsen-common  2.0.8
| ii  install-info    6.1.0.dfsg.1-6
|
| Versions of packages ess recommends:
| ii  r-base-core  3.3.0-1
|
| Versions of packages ess suggests:
| pn  jags       <none>
| pn  julia      <none>
| pn  pspp       <none>
| pn  xlispstat  <none>
|
| -- no debconf information

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