reassign 246633 emacsen-common 1.4.15
thanks
I'm trying to clean up the long list of old bugs in emacs21.
On 2004-04-30 07:01 +0200, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Package: emacs21
> Version: 21.3+1-5
> Severity: minor
>
> When upgrading to the latest emacs I got this error:
>
> Setting up emacs21 (21.3+1-5) ...
> emacs-install emacs21
> Package `a2ps~' is not installed and no info is available.
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> install/a2ps: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs21
> Loading 00debian-vars (source)...
>
> There was also a substantial pause at this time (15 seconds?).
>
>
> Earlier in the install, I got this:
> Preparing to replace emacs21-el 21.3+1-4 (using
> .../emacs21-el_21.3+1-5_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement emacs21-el ...
> Preparing to replace emacs21 21.3+1-4 (using .../emacs21_21.3+1-5_i386.deb)
> ...
> emacs-remove emacs21
> Package `a2ps~' is not installed and no info is available.
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> remove/sawfish: purging byte-compiled files for emacs21
>
>
> Aside from the error messages and the pauses, there's been no visible harm.
>
> It seems likely the error arises from some auxiliary package, or even
> something I've done, but I don't know enough about what's happening
> under the hood to know where to look.
It seems that somehow you got a file /usr/lib/emacsen-common/a2ps~, and
emacs-install tried run the install script for the non-existent package
a2ps~. How that file came in there is hard to say, but since
emacs-install is part of emacsen-common, I'm reassigning the bug to that
package.
Regards,
Sven
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