Bug#539752: emacs installs, but installs emacs23-nox
Package: emacs Version: 23.1+1-2 Severity: normal I updated my installation yesterday. I've had the emacs and emacs22 packages installed. The following happened: malaclypse:~# grep emacs /var/log/aptitude [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-bin-common [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-common [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-nox [UPGRADE] emacs 22.3+1-1.1 - 23.1+1-2 This breaks my emacs in X, which isn't tragic (I can workaround it), but is quite confusing! I've added this to this bug report since it seems likely that this is related to dependencies that aren't installable, though my system had no problem installing emacs23-common. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-openvz-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages emacs depends on: ii emacs23-nox [emacs23] 23.1+1-2 The GNU Emacs editor (without X su emacs recommends no packages. emacs suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#539752: emacs installs, but installs emacs23-nox
reassign 539752 aptitude 0.4.11.11-1 thanks On 2009-08-18 16:11 +0200, Ross Vandegrift wrote: Package: emacs Version: 23.1+1-2 Severity: normal I updated my installation yesterday. I've had the emacs and emacs22 packages installed. The following happened: malaclypse:~# grep emacs /var/log/aptitude [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-bin-common [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-common [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-nox [UPGRADE] emacs 22.3+1-1.1 - 23.1+1-2 FWIW, I could reproduce this in a Squeeze chroot, although I had emacs22-nox installed there. But AFAICS this is not a bug in emacs which depends on emacs23 | emacs23-gtk | emacs23-nox. This breaks my emacs in X, which isn't tragic (I can workaround it), but is quite confusing! I've added this to this bug report since it seems likely that this is related to dependencies that aren't installable, though my system had no problem installing emacs23-common. It's probably not that the dependencies aren't installable (try aptitude install emacs23 to find out -- it would have worked for me), but rather that aptitude chose a solution that does not involve installing additional packages (the emacs23 package has more dependencies than emacs22). BTW, how did you upgrade? I did with aptitude safe-upgrade, it is possible that aptitude full-upgrade or aptitude install emacs would have had a different outcome. A final tip for you: install emacs23-gtk instead of emacs23, GTK+ is the preferred toolkit by upstream (see #539800). Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#539752: emacs installs, but installs emacs23-nox
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:47:22AM -0400, Sven Joachim wrote: malaclypse:~# grep emacs /var/log/aptitude [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-bin-common [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-common [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-nox [UPGRADE] emacs 22.3+1-1.1 - 23.1+1-2 FWIW, I could reproduce this in a Squeeze chroot, although I had emacs22-nox installed there. But AFAICS this is not a bug in emacs which depends on emacs23 | emacs23-gtk | emacs23-nox. But shouldn't emacs pull in the X version if I don't have any emacs*-nox installed? Especially if the action replaces the default emacs command with a non-X version. It's probably not that the dependencies aren't installable (try aptitude install emacs23 to find out -- it would have worked for me), but rather that aptitude chose a solution that does not involve installing additional packages (the emacs23 package has more dependencies than emacs22). You're correct, it is installable (I was responding to the previous comments). I fixed my installation by installing emacs23 and things are working fine. BTW, how did you upgrade? I did with aptitude safe-upgrade, it is possible that aptitude full-upgrade or aptitude install emacs would have had a different outcome. I did aptitude safe-upgrade. A final tip for you: install emacs23-gtk instead of emacs23, GTK+ is the preferred toolkit by upstream (see #539800). Okay, cool - I'll check that out. Ross signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#539752: emacs installs, but installs emacs23-nox
On 2009-08-18 17:11 +0200, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:47:22AM -0400, Sven Joachim wrote: malaclypse:~# grep emacs /var/log/aptitude [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-bin-common [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-common [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES] emacs23-nox [UPGRADE] emacs 22.3+1-1.1 - 23.1+1-2 FWIW, I could reproduce this in a Squeeze chroot, although I had emacs22-nox installed there. But AFAICS this is not a bug in emacs which depends on emacs23 | emacs23-gtk | emacs23-nox. But shouldn't emacs pull in the X version if I don't have any emacs*-nox installed? Especially if the action replaces the default emacs command with a non-X version. Yes, it should, as emacs23 is the first of the alternative dependencies of emacs and apt(itude) generally prefers that one. But the problem may be that emacs23-nox _also_ provides emacs23 -- it has to do that for the reverse dependencies. IMHO aptitude should prefer the real emacs23 package over a virtual one nonetheless, I have retitled the bug accordingly. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#539752: emacs installs, but installs emacs23-nox
On 2009-08-18 17:11 +0200, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:47:22AM -0400, Sven Joachim wrote: BTW, how did you upgrade? I did with aptitude safe-upgrade, it is possible that aptitude full-upgrade or aptitude install emacs would have had a different outcome. I did aptitude safe-upgrade. For the record, in another chroot where emacs and emacs22 were installed, aptitude safe-upgrade would install emacs23-nox, but aptitude full-upgrade would install emacs23. Go figure. I haven't tried the experimental aptitude yet. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
