On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 08:51:31AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:

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> 
> 
> ..how about fixing Devuan BTS, instead of whining about me 
> reporting things that _appear_ broken to me?:

Is this the normal way you interact with an open-source community, or
are you making some special effort to look mean just for Devuan? :\

> ~$ reportbug edb
> *** Welcome to reportbug.  Use ? for help at prompts. ***
> Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of
> the submitter). Detected character set: UTF-8
> Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
> 
> Using 'arnt <a...@iaksess.no>' as your from address.
> Getting status for edb...
> A package named "edb" does not appear to be installed; do you want to
> search for a similar-looking filename in an installed package
> [Y|n|q|?]? n Getting available info for edb... Please enter the version
> of the package this report applies to (blank OK)
> > 1.13-3
> Will send report to Devuan (per lsb_release).
> Querying Devuan BTS for reports on edb (source)...
> Unable to connect to Devuan BTS (error: "NoNetwork()"); continue
> [y|N|?]? 
>

Now the BTS is broken...except it ain't broken (and the fact that many
users have been able to use it should be a hint). It's just telling
you that it can't retrieve the list of bugs related to that
package. That's because the "feature" is currently disabled. Just hit
"y" and continue with your bug report. The list of bugs related to a
package can be retrieved from bugs.devuan.org

> ..edb is broken too, and breaks emacs25 installs if present.
> emacs25 installs fine, once you remove edb.
>

I'll tell you something incredible: you are not the only Devuan user,
and not all Emacs users in ASCII want emacs25. edb might break emacs25
but does not break emacs24. 

The breakage here comes from the Debian emacs team, who tried to do
three things in one go and managed to do less than one.  Your bug
report should better be submitted there, if you want it to be
useful. We don't have a team of 20 people in charge of packaging emacs
and emacs-related stuff, unfortunately...

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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