Bug#708930: ess: Fail to install when xemacs21 is there

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Remi

On 19 May 2013 at 15:47, Remi Vanicat wrote:
| Package: ess
| Version: 13.05-2
| Severity: normal
| 
| I was trying to upgrade ess to 13.05-2, but it failed:
| 
| [... lot of stuff ...]
| Install ess for xemacs21
| install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor xemacs21
| loading 'ess-compat ..
| loading 'ess-custom ..
| loading 'ess ..
| loading 'ess-site ..
| [ess-site:] ess-lisp-directory = '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess'
| [ess-site:] require 'ess   *ITSELF* ...
| [ess-site:] .. after requiring 'ess ...
| [ess-site:] Before requiring dialect 'ess-*-d ....
| [ess-site:] require 'ess-r-d ...
| [ess-r-d:] (require 'ess-s-l)
| [ess-s-l:] (def** ) only ...
| enabling speedbar support
| [ess-r-d:] (autoload ..) & (def** ..)
| Wrong number of arguments: define-obsolete-function-alias, 3
| xemacs exiting
| .
| ERROR: install script from ess package failed
| 
| Adding 
| 
| if [ ${FLAVOR} = xemacs21 ]; then exit 0; fi
| 
| at the beginning of /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ess solve
| the install problem.

That seems legit.  As I recall, upstream ESS no longer supports xemacs so I
should skip this.  CCing the ESS team for feedback or gotchas.

Dirk

| 
| (it also failed because of my old emacs22, but this one is not in debian
| anymore) 
| 
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: jessie/sid
|   APT prefers unstable
|   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
| Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
| Foreign Architectures: i386
| 
| Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
| Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
| 
| Versions of packages ess depends on:
| ii  dpkg                     1.16.10
| ii  emacs22 [emacsen]        22.3+1-1.2
| ii  emacs23 [emacsen]        23.4+1-4
| ii  emacs24 [emacsen]        24.3+1-1
| ii  install-info             5.1.dfsg.1-3
| ii  xemacs21-mule [emacsen]  21.4.22-4+b1
| 
| ess recommends no packages.
| 
| Versions of packages ess suggests:
| pn  jags         <none>
| pn  pspp         <none>
| ii  r-base       3.0.1-1
| ii  r-base-core  3.0.1-1
| pn  xlispstat    <none>
| 
| -- no debconf information
| 
| 
| -- 
| Rémi Vanicat
| 
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Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com