tag 604234 +patch thanks 2011/1/1 James R. Van Zandt <j...@comcast.net>: > > I cannot reproduce your failure. I can install emacspeak-ss with no > problem on my system. > > I have not worked with pbuilder before. However, I tried > > apt-get install cowbuilder > cowbuilder --create > cowbuilder --login > apt-get install emacspeak-ss > > and it installed fine.
Hi, Jim, Note that this is not a problem only in chroots. This wil fail in the pre-configure stage everytime 'non-interactive' debconf frontend is used. The clue to reproduce this problem is that both emacspeak and emacspeak-ss are installed together in the same apt run and both for the first time, e.g., # DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install emacspeak emacspeak-ss I could finally look at this and seem to have an idea about what is happening here. The problem is that shared/emacspeak/port defaults to 'none' in emacspeak, but has no default entry for emacspeak-ss. Thus, when emacspeak-ss template is parsed (after emacspeak one) in the apt pre-configuration stage, its value overrides that of emacspeak, and default becomes empty. In non-interactive mode, since that is not an allowed value, an error message is displayed and previous debconf prompt is shown again, new error and infinite loop starting, causing hang, see my previous message for more details. I'd expect that attached untested patch should do the work. I was preparing it for a possible NMU, but now that you are online I am leaving it at your consideration. Do not know if there are other similar problems hidden. Cheers, -- Agustin
diff -u emacspeak-ss-1.12.1/debian/templates emacspeak-ss-1.12.1/debian/templates --- emacspeak-ss-1.12.1/debian/templates +++ emacspeak-ss-1.12.1/debian/templates @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Type: string #flag:comment:3 # Translators, please do not translate "none" +Default: none _Description: Hardware port of the speech generation device: If a hardware device is used to generate speech, please enter the Unix device file associated with it, such as '/dev/ttyS0' or diff -u emacspeak-ss-1.12.1/debian/changelog emacspeak-ss-1.12.1/debian/changelog --- emacspeak-ss-1.12.1/debian/changelog +++ emacspeak-ss-1.12.1/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +emacspeak-ss (1.12.1-1.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non maintainer upload. + * Use a sane default for shared/emacspeak/port template (Closes: #604234). + + -- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmar...@debian.org> Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:06:07 +0100 + emacspeak-ss (1.12.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release: fix bashism in script testit (thanks to Raphael
