Your message dated Thu, 3 Jan 2019 21:15:58 +0000 (UTC) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#905305 has caused the Debian Bug report #905305, regarding emacs-common: terrible mess to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: emacs-common Version: 1:25.2+1-8 Severity: important Recent updates/transitions give me a hard time. I had to remove older versions 23 amd 24 because of package upgrade failures. The only installed version now is emacs25. Been using debian and emacs for some 20 years. This is a system that runs sid "from the beginning of times", constantly upgraded, moved from one HW to another. Can't recall seeing anything (emacs related) like this, over the years. This is really annoying. Executing: # emacs -nw --debug-init -q shows the following in the *Message* buffer: ... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50devscripts-el.el (source)... Package devscripts-el removed but not purged. Skipping setup. ... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50emacs-jabber.el (source)... Package emacs-jabber removed but not purged. Skipping setup. ... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50git-core.el (source)... git removed but not purged, skipping setup ... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50lua-mode.el (source)... Package lua-mode removed but not purged. Skipping setup. ... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-mode.el (source)... Package python-mode not fully installed. Skipping setup. ... and finaly: run-hooks: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, initz Impossible to open any file (for edit) from the command line. Have to open it again after startup: C-x C-f. Common denominator seems to be /etc/emacs/site-start.d/. Packages dropping files in there are: # dpkg -S /etc/emacs/site-start.d/ a2ps, apel, autoconf, boxes, cmake-data, crypt++el, css-mode, develock-el, dictionaries-common, docutils-common, elib, elpa-jabber, elserv, emacs-goodies-el, emacs-intl-fonts, festival, figlet, flim, gettext-el, git-el, global, gnuplot-mode, gnuserv, gtk-doc-tools, gtypist, html-helper-mode, initz, lookup-el, mew, mgp, planner-el, pylint, pymacs, python-mode, remember-el, sawfish, subversion-tools, systemtap-common, tcsh, tpp, tuareg-mode, w3m-el, whizzytex, windows-el, x-face-el, x-pgp-sig-el, xcscope-el, emacs-common: /etc/emacs/site-start.d I can see that some of those packages are no longer available from the archive: css-mode elib elserv html-helper-mode remember-el x-pgp-sig-el Still, they don't seem to be the ones failing 'init', AFAICT. I guess emacs-common is not the root of the problem here, but I have a hard time figuring out what is. Please feel free reassigning. Still wondering. Is there anything _I_ can do to clean up the mess? -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages emacs-common depends on: ii emacsen-common 3.0.2 ii install-info 6.5.0.dfsg.1-4 Versions of packages emacs-common recommends: pn emacs-el <none> Versions of packages emacs-common suggests: pn emacs-common-non-dfsg <none> ii ncurses-term 6.1+20180714-1 -- no debconf information Cheers, -- Cristian
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--- Begin Message ---AFAICS the transition to unversioned emacs completed months ago, so I'm taking the liberty of closing this report. Obviously reopen if still relevant.
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