On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:01:05PM +0200, Daniel Brockman wrote: > Package: dictionaries-common > Version: 0.25.9 > Severity: normal > > Steps to reproduce: > > apt-get install dictionaries-common aspell-sv (or some other) > apt-get install --reinstall emacs21
If I am not wrong, that should also be reproduced by a plain # dpkg-reconfigure emacs21 I can only check that now in a woody+dict-common system, and I cannot reproduce that problem. I am not in dial up and cannot try a real reinstall. Please check if 'dpkg-reconfigure emacs21' also gives that problem in your system. Please also provide info about the emacs version you are trying. After your description, every upgrade should trigger that problem (As a matter of fact a harmless error message is sometimes shown for xemacs probably due to that problem), but I could never see it for FSF emacs, and I have gone through a number of install/upgrade/reinstall runs (I am not sure about reinstalls, but should be similar). I cannot be sure that something in the emacs error handling is not changed in sid, but I am surprised that I never found that problem for FSF emacs. I am also surprised that this bug, considering what causes it, has never been reported. Read below for a possible reason. > > This likely results in dpkg failing noisily upon running the emacs-install > script for some completely unrelated Emacs package. You won't be able to get > your Emacs back unless you first remove dictionaries-common. Then you can > install Emacs, and finally put back dictionaries-common if you like. > > This becomes a real problem when you want to install a new Emacs flavor > (something which also provokes this bug). The worst part may be that the > error messages give no hint about what is really causing the problem. > > The problem is that /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el calls > > (load "/var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el" t) > > and /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el calls > > (debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry ...) > > which causes the autoload for `debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry' to attempt > to load the library "debian-ispell". Here's where things break down. dictionaries-common emacsen-install is called with --no-site-file for emacs21* and with -no-site-file for xemacs21*, so that configuration files (etc/etc/emacs/site-start.d/* stuff) should not be loaded, look at the *real* dictionaries-common section install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs21 Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.elc Done (No loads from /etc at all) But other packages might have missed this, and they are blindly loading everything under /etc/emacs/site-start.d when byte-compiling. Can you please submit the full byte-compile log?, so we can better locate the problem. > > I don't know what would be a good solution in this case, but you may find it > helpful to know that I've filed a similar couple of bugs on the dictionary-el > and BBDB packages (Bug#308335 and Bug#308336, respectively) --- which also > cause this same problem. The trivial fix is to surround the code by a condition-case, so we work around other packages bugs. I do not think that is desirable, so I wait for your log. Note that those other packages might also not be guilty for this problem. Thanks for your report, ... and waiting for your feedback, Cheers, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
