Package: ess Version: 17.11-2 Severity: normal With the current packaging of Emacs 25.2.2 in unstable, ess doesn't get loaded as it ought to. I believe this is fallout from the Emacs maintainers dropping the version number from the packages (as of 'emacs' package version 1:25.2+1-7). On startup, the *Messages* buffer has
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ess.el (source)... Package ess not fully installed. Skipping setup. Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ess.el (source)...done and 'r-mode is not defined. I traced through the execution of 50ess.el by hand and found that it's bailing out because debian-emacs-flavor is "emacs" and /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess/ess-site.elc does not exist. That file does not exist because /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/ess silently exits when its FLAVOR argument is "emacs". I'm not sure what the _proper_ fix is, but if I byte-compile all the .el files in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess and then replace 50ess.el with just (require 'ess-site) then ess is loaded again. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages ess depends on: ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 ii emacsen-common 3.0.2 ii install-info 6.5.0.dfsg.1-4 Versions of packages ess recommends: ii r-base-core 3.5.1-1+b1 Versions of packages ess suggests: pn jags <none> pn julia <none> pn pspp <none> pn xlispstat <none> -- no debconf information
