Bug#507510: Ess configure fails after upgrade

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 December 2008 at 12:59, Anant Kabra wrote:
| Ok, so I looked at the suggested packages for ess. One was r-base. So I
| installed r-base. After installing r-base, everything works fine. Maybe

Ahhhhhh. So I was off by a line -- it is not speedbar, it is the

	 Finding all versions of R on your system

that triggered.  That is clearly a possibility.   The R interpreter is
provide by r-base-core (one of the packages r-base brought in for you) so I
will make it depend on this.

| r-base needs to be a required package, or the script needs to be changed to
| handle r-base not being installed without throwing an error.

Excellent. Many thanks for your follow-up and help!

Dirk

 
| Thanks & Regards
| Anant Kabra
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd at debian.org] 
| Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:49 AM
| To: Anant Kabra; 507510 at bugs.debian.org
| Subject: Re: Bug#507510: Ess configure fails after upgrade
| 
| 
| 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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