Bug#507510: Ess configure fails after upgrade

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 2 December 2008 at 12:17, Anant Kabra wrote:
| I'm seeing the same problem. Log shown below.

Could it be speedbar?  That appears to be common to your (NB: omitted extra
white-space) 

[...]
| [ess-site:] require 'ess   *ITSELF* ...
| enabling speedbar support
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Finding all versions of R on your system...
| Symbol's value as variable is void: ess-r-versions-created
| emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ess emacs22
| emacs22 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30,
| <TSORT> line 1.
| dpkg: error processing ess (--configure):
|  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  Ess

setup as well as for Christian:

On 1 December 2008 at 23:56, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
[...]
| [ess-site:] require 'ess   *ITSELF* ...
| enabling speedbar support
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Finding all versions of R on your system...
| Symbol's value as variable is void: ess-r-versions-created
| emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ess emacs21 emacs21 emacs22 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 1.
| dpkg: error processing ess (--configure):
|  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255

Could you or Anant please try what happens when you remove certain packages?

We could then go to upstream and have them take a closer look.  Right now the
problem is still darn underspecified (ie success for many people, failure for
two; changeset unclear)

Dirk

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