On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

>
> 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
>

Indeed, you are right Dirk.   We had decided to abandon Xemacs support for
newer versions of ESS that seemed like a lot of extra work  for almost no
benefit, notably for us or the teams we work with and work in.

Actually, you did not CC  "the ESS team" (= ESS-core@...)  which I do now.

Thank you, Dirk (and Remi)!
Martin


> |
> | (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
> |
> | _______________________________________________
> | ESS-Debian mailing list
> | ESS-Debian@r-project.org
> | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-debian
>
> --
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> ESS-Debian mailing list
> ESS-Debian@r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-debian
>
>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

