On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 05:55:14PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > So, seems that the problem appears when both xemacs21 stuff and emacsen-common > are ugraded at the same time. Seems that xemacs21 stuff needs something from > a postinst to become available for byte-compilation, so byte-compilation > fails and needed postinst is not reached. If in the failing chroot I run > > # xemacs21 -vanilla -nw > > WARNING: > Couldn't find obvious defaults for: > data-directory > mule-lisp-directory > lisp-directory > Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable, > /usr/bin/xemacs21 > is in a strange place? > . > > and once xemacs is started I see > > (1) (warning/warning) Autoload error in: > /usr/share/xemacs21/mule-packages/lisp/latin-euro-standards/auto-autoloads: > Cannot open load file: cl-macs > > I think that emacsen-common > 2.0.0 considering the failure of any > add-on package install or remove script as a fatal error just makes this > underlying xemacs21 problem evident, but seems to be something wrong in > xemacs21. > > Reading more carefully http://bugs.debian.org/619367 I see that it points > to http://bugs.debian.org/391778, where some symlinks are done at > xemacs21-* postinst. May be those symlinks should be done in appropriate > preinst if needed, so paths are available even if xemacs21* is not yet > configured.
I am thinking about a possible alternative, a dirty workaround from the emacsen-common side, make "emacs-install" and "emacs-package-install" skip byte compilation for xemacs21 if those symlinks are not set, warning about this. "emacs-install" should be called again from relevant xemacs21* postinsts, and this last must be done after symlinks are set. Did not look at "emacs-install" and "emacs-package-install", nor sure how reasonable / rock solid/ easy is this. Also, I find this a bit weak regarding possible changes in xemacs21, but ... Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
