Package: emacs21 Version: 21.4a-1 Severity: serious Hold on, this is a multistep bugreport which covers a couple of issues and *might* finally boil down to xaw3dg-dev and/or libxaw.
According to http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=emacs21, building of emacs after the last NMU failed on most architectures. I'm confused, though, because the NMU was in January according to the changelog, and makes the package is uninstallable on most architectures. This is because emacs21-bin-common depends on emacs21-common=${Source-Version}, and emacs21-common has now the NMU version number. But this should have shown up much earlier, it's like as if the NMU was not in fact in the archive the last months. As to the actual failure, it doesn't look as if it should be related to the NMU patch, and this is some other strange thing. On i386, it fails with i486-linux-gnu-gcc -c -DUSE_LUCID -Demacs -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DUSE_LUCID -I. -I/build/buildd/emacs21-21.4a/src -D_BSD_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -g -O2 -DPURESIZE=5000000 -I../src /build/buildd/emacs21-21.4a/lwlib/lwlib.c /build/buildd/emacs21-21.4a/lwlib/lwlib.c:52:27: error: X11/Xaw/Paned.h: No such file or directory make[5]: *** [lwlib.o] Error 1 Now Paned.h is in libxaw8-dev, which is installed as an indirect build-dependency. Maybe this has to do with the XOrg transition, the headers have changed there location: usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xaw/Paned.h libdevel/libxaw8-dev usr/include/X11/Xaw/Paned.h x11/libxaw-headers And maybe the underlying bug is that xaw3dg-dev still depends on "libxaw8-dev | libxaw7-dev | libxaw6-dev" but should have dropped libxaw8-dev? Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages emacs21 depends on: ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a-1 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5bpo1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5bpo1 X Window System Session Management ii libtiff4 3.7.2-3 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libungif4g 4.1.3-2sarge1 shared library for GIF images (run ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5bpo1 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5bpo1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxmu6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5bpo1 X Window System miscellaneous util ii libxpm4 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5bpo1 X pixmap library ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5bpo1 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-8 Xaw3d widget set ii xlibs 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5bpo1 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)