Bug#153860: Bug#586328: gtk-doc-tools: Upgrade fails: ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.

2010-07-05 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org writes: Just to be clear, as far as I know, this entire bug report is if anything a wishlist request. While it's almost certainly possible to change/improve our emacs policy, the current policy requires any package that wants to use the debian emacs

Bug#153860: Bug#586328: gtk-doc-tools: Upgrade fails: ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.

2010-06-27 Thread Rob Browning
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: This is a serious WTF in emacsen-common and/or emacs itself. It’s not appropriate to add a dependency on emacsen-common just for the sake of including support for an editor. The bug (CCed) has been known for 8 years, so I’ll assume it won’t be fixed

Bug#153860: Bug#586328: gtk-doc-tools: Upgrade fails: ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.

2010-06-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
severity 586328 serious thanks Le vendredi 18 juin 2010 à 14:36 +0200, Ludovic Rousseau a écrit : Preparing to replace gtk-doc-tools 1.10-1 (using .../gtk-doc-tools_1.15-1_all.deb) ... ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured. ERROR: This is likely a bug in the gtk-doc-tools

Bug#153860: Bug#586328: gtk-doc-tools: Upgrade fails: ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.

2010-06-26 Thread Rob Browning
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: severity 586328 serious thanks Le vendredi 18 juin 2010 à 14:36 +0200, Ludovic Rousseau a écrit : Preparing to replace gtk-doc-tools 1.10-1 (using .../gtk-doc-tools_1.15-1_all.deb) ... ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.

Bug#153860: Bug#586328: gtk-doc-tools: Upgrade fails: ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.

2010-06-26 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 10:00:36 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This is a serious WTF in emacsen-common and/or emacs itself. It’s not appropriate to add a dependency on emacsen-common just for the sake of including support for an editor. emacsen-common is tiny and has no dependencies, so it

Bug#153860: Bug#586328: gtk-doc-tools: Upgrade fails: ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.

2010-06-26 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning r...@defaultvalue.org writes: As I've said before, while it might be possible to rework things to remove the dependency, the original problem was complicated -- the current arrangement wasn't chosen arbirarily. And in general, if you want to use a compiled language, it's not

Bug#586328: Bug#153860: Bug#586328: gtk-doc-tools: Upgrade fails: ERROR: emacsen-common being used before being configured.

2010-06-26 Thread Rob Browning
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes: emacsen-common is tiny and has no dependencies, so it doesn't seem that big a burden. I believe that's not the core complaint. If I recall correctly, packages are required to depend on some combination of emacsen/emacsXY/xemacsXY, rather than